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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.




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