The synopsys text and the usage string of subcommands that read list
of things from the standard input are often shown like this:
git gostak [--distim] < <list-of-doshes>
This is problematic in a number of ways:
* The way to use these commands is more often to feed them the
output from another command, not feed them from a file.
* Manual pages outside Git, commands that operate on the data read
from the standard input, e.g "sort", "grep", "sed", etc., are not
described with such a "< redirection-from-file" in their synopsys
text. Our doing so introduces inconsistency.
* We do not insist on where the output should go, by saying
git gostak [--distim] < <list-of-doshes> > <output>
* As it is our convention to enclose placeholders inside <braket>,
the redirection operator followed by a placeholder filename
becomes very hard to read, both in the documentation and in the
help text.
Let's clean them all up, after making sure that the documentation
clearly describes the modes that take information from the standard
input and what kind of things are expected on the input.
[jc: stole example for fmt-merge-msg from Jonathan]
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Continue where ae021d87 (use skip_prefix to avoid magic numbers) left off
and use skip_prefix() in more places for determining the lengths of prefix
strings to avoid using dependent constants and other indirect methods.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the built-in "git tar-tree" command (a thin wrapper around "git
archive") was removed in 925ceccf (tar-tree: remove deprecated
command, 2013-11-10), the build continued to install a non-functioning
git-tar-tree command in gitexecdir by mistake:
$ PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH
$ git-tar-tree -h
fatal: cannot handle tar-tree internally
The list of links in gitexecdir is populated from BUILTIN_OBJS, which
includes builtin/tar-tree.o to implement "git get-tar-commit-id".
Rename the get-tar-commit-id source file to builtin/get-tar-commit-id.c
to reflect its purpose and fix 'make install'.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano
René Scharfe
Jonathan Nieder