Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add backing file option to qemu-img create help.

[Eric Blake]

On 05/12/2014 06:35 AM, Mike Day wrote:
> For the create subcommand the backing file (-b) option is documented
> on-line but not in the binary. Add it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Day <address@hidden>
> ---
>  qemu-img-cmds.hx | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/qemu-img-cmds.hx b/qemu-img-cmds.hx
> index d029609..7724709 100644
> --- a/qemu-img-cmds.hx
> +++ b/qemu-img-cmds.hx
> @@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ STEXI
>  ETEXI
>  
>  DEF("create", img_create,
> -    "create [-q] [-f fmt] [-o options] filename [size]")
> +    "create [-q] [-f fmt] [-b backing-file] [-o options] filename [size]")
>  STEXI
> address@hidden create [-q] [-f @var{fmt}] [-o @var{options}] @var{filename} 
> address@hidden
> address@hidden create [-q] [-f @var{fmt}] [-b @var{backing_file}] [-o 
> @var{options}] @var{filename} address@hidden

There are two spellings for this:

-b file
-o backing_file=file

is -o considered to be preferred over -b, as an explanation for why it
is not documented?

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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