On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Emily > > On 27/08/2025 08:22, Emily Shaffer via GitGitGadget wrote: > > From: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > In f873a273d1 (revert: accept arbitrary rev-list options, 2010-06-14), > > we added a handful of new options to `git revert` and `git cherry-pick`, > > but did not document them except by example to `cherry-pick` only. We > > have a nice shorthand for adding the rev-list documentation, so let's > > add it now, to both commands. > > I agree that it would be helpful to have a some rev-list options > included here but this adds a huge amount of text to the man page which > comes before the documentation for frequently used options like > "--continue". I'm not sure all of the new text is relevant to > cherry-pick and revert. For instance do we need to document --bisect, > -cherry-mark and --boundary here? I'm not sure the History > Simplification and Commit Formatting sections are relevant either. There > are already a bunch of ifdefs in rev-list-options.adoc that change > what's included depending on which command we're documenting, maybe we > should add some more for the cherry-pick and revert documentation? I thought too that the rev-list-options.adoc is probably longer than it needs to be for most of the places where we include it. I wonder if it's worth breaking that inclusion into smaller, more relevant parts? Full disclosure, if that's the solution we want to go with, it will take much longer for me to address it than for someone else to, although I'm interested. - Emily > > Thanks > > Phillip> Reported-by: Andrew Jeffrey <andrew@xxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > cherry-pick: document rev-list options > > > > Ach, sorry for the noise, turns out it touched both revert and > > cherry-pick, might as well do the docs for both. > > > > Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-2042%2Fnasamuffin%2Fcherry-pick-docs-v2 > > Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-2042/nasamuffin/cherry-pick-docs-v2 > > Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/2042 > > > > Range-diff vs v1: > > > > 1: fa352ccda08 ! 1: f41cb4e8abc cherry-pick: document rev-list options > > @@ Metadata > > Author: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > ## Commit message ## > > - cherry-pick: document rev-list options > > + doc: document rev-list opts in revert, cherry-pick > > > > In f873a273d1 (revert: accept arbitrary rev-list options, 2010-06-14), > > - we added a handful of new options to `git cherry-pick`, but did not > > - document them except by example. We have a nice shorthand for adding the > > - rev-list documentation, so let's add it now. > > + we added a handful of new options to `git revert` and `git cherry-pick`, > > + but did not document them except by example to `cherry-pick` only. We > > + have a nice shorthand for adding the rev-list documentation, so let's > > + add it now, to both commands. > > > > Reported-by: Andrew Jeffrey <andrew@xxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@xxxxxxxxxx> > > @@ Documentation/git-cherry-pick.adoc: fail unless one of `--empty=keep` or `--allo > > SEQUENCER SUBCOMMANDS > > --------------------- > > include::sequencer.adoc[] > > + > > + ## Documentation/git-revert.adoc ## > > +@@ Documentation/git-revert.adoc: include::rerere-options.adoc[] > > + configuration variable can be used to enable this option by > > + default. > > + > > ++include::rev-list-options.adoc[] > > + > > + SEQUENCER SUBCOMMANDS > > + --------------------- > > > > > > Documentation/git-cherry-pick.adoc | 2 ++ > > Documentation/git-revert.adoc | 1 + > > 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+) > > > > diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.adoc b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.adoc > > index 42b41923d5f..03848aa9f21 100644 > > --- a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.adoc > > +++ b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.adoc > > @@ -174,6 +174,8 @@ fail unless one of `--empty=keep` or `--allow-empty` are specified. > > > > include::rerere-options.adoc[] > > > > +include::rev-list-options.adoc[] > > + > > SEQUENCER SUBCOMMANDS > > --------------------- > > include::sequencer.adoc[] > > diff --git a/Documentation/git-revert.adoc b/Documentation/git-revert.adoc > > index ffba365e639..28827807473 100644 > > --- a/Documentation/git-revert.adoc > > +++ b/Documentation/git-revert.adoc > > @@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ include::rerere-options.adoc[] > > configuration variable can be used to enable this option by > > default. > > > > +include::rev-list-options.adoc[] > > > > SEQUENCER SUBCOMMANDS > > --------------------- > > > > base-commit: f814da676ae46aac5be0a98b99373a76dee6cedb >
