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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index f26a7591e3..912fab9f5e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Many Git porcelainish commands take mixture of flags +Many Git porcelainish commands take a mixture of flags (i.e. parameters that begin with a dash '-') and parameters meant for the underlying 'git rev-list' command they use internally and flags and parameters for the other commands they use @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Each of these options must appear first on the command line. --sq-quote:: Use 'git rev-parse' in shell quoting mode (see SQ-QUOTE section below). In contrast to the `--sq` option below, this - mode does only quoting. Nothing else is done to command input. + mode only does quoting. Nothing else is done to command input. Options for --parseopt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ for another option. are not refs (i.e. branch or tag names; or more explicitly disambiguating "heads/master" form, when you want to name the "master" branch when there is an - unfortunately named tag "master"), and show them as full + unfortunately named tag "master"), and shows them as full refnames (e.g. "refs/heads/master"). Options for Objects @@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ Each line of options has this format: dash to separate words in a multi-word argument hint. The remainder of the line, after stripping the spaces, is used -as the help associated to the option. +as the help associated with the option. Blank lines are ignored, and lines that don't match this specification are used as option group headers (start the line with a space to create such @@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ some-command [<options>] <args>... some-command does foo and bar! -- -h,help show the help +h,help! show the help foo some nifty option --foo bar= some cool option --bar with an argument @@ -424,10 +424,10 @@ usage: some-command [<options>] <args>... some-command does foo and bar! -h, --help show the help - --foo some nifty option --foo - --bar ... some cool option --bar with an argument - --baz <arg> another cool option --baz with a named argument - --qux[=<path>] qux may take a path argument but has meaning by itself + --[no-]foo some nifty option --foo + --[no-]bar ... some cool option --bar with an argument + --[no-]baz <arg> another cool option --baz with a named argument + --[no-]qux[=<path>] qux may take a path argument but has meaning by itself An option group Header -C[...] option C with an optional argument |