merge(3p/git): Merge git upstream at v2.26.2

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Vincent Ambo 2020-05-22 17:46:45 +01:00
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@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ arguments. Here are the rules:
file called HEAD in your work tree, `git diff HEAD` is ambiguous, and
you have to say either `git diff HEAD --` or `git diff -- HEAD` to
disambiguate.
* Because `--` disambiguates revisions and paths in some commands, it
cannot be used for those commands to separate options and revisions.
You can use `--end-of-options` for this (it also works for commands
that do not distinguish between revisions in paths, in which case it
is simply an alias for `--`).
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When writing a script that is expected to handle random user-input, it is
a good practice to make it explicit which arguments are which by placing
@ -120,6 +126,11 @@ usage: git describe [<options>] <commit-ish>*
--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
@ -205,8 +216,8 @@ only affects the files in the working tree, but with
entries, and with `--cached`, it modifies only the index
entries.
See also http://marc.info/?l=git&m=116563135620359 and
http://marc.info/?l=git&m=119150393620273 for further
See also https://lore.kernel.org/git/7v64clg5u9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net/ and
https://lore.kernel.org/git/7vy7ej9g38.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org/ for further
information.
Some other commands that also work on files in the working tree and/or