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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2020-03-11 10:58:16 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2020-03-11 10:58:16 -0700
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Merge branch 'jc/doc-single-h-is-for-help'
Both "git ls-remote -h" and "git grep -h" give short usage help, like any other Git subcommand, but it is not unreasonable to expect that the former would behave the same as "git ls-remote --head" (there is no other sensible behaviour for the latter). The documentation has been updated in an attempt to clarify this. * jc/doc-single-h-is-for-help: Documentation: clarify that `-h` alone stands for `help`
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--long always use long format
--abbrev[=<n>] use <n> digits to display SHA-1s
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+Note that some subcommand (e.g. `git grep`) may behave differently
+when there are things on the command line other than `-h`, but `git
+subcmd -h` without anything else on the command line is meant to
+consistently give the usage.
--help-all::
Some Git commands take options that are only used for plumbing or that