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Re: [PATCH] Use "git -h" in bootstrap instead of "git --help"
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Use "git -h" in bootstrap instead of "git --help" |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:32:16 +0200 |
Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Use "git -h" for testing for supported options instead of "git --help". The
> short-form option only shows a summary, and doesn't layout the full man page,
> which is much faster and saves a dependency.
>
> (We found out that git uses man in a build environment of
> http://hydra.nixos.org/, which by default doesn't have man installed.)
>
> Grep for the full option name in the summary, too.
Thanks! I've pushed that.