Re: [PATCH 2/24] Documentation: Add variable-substitution script

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 19:51, Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] wrote:

Thomas Rast wrote:

I would like to make the git-config(1) man page more like the command
list in git(1) and less like a concatenation of CONFIGURATION
sections, but regardless, this is a good first step.

Yeah, I think git-config(1) shouldn't have the huge listing either,
but that's something for a later series to tackle.

quoted

+++ b/Documentation/subst-config.perl

@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@

[...]

quoted

+if (!$rc or (!-r $varlist or !-r $input)) {
+    print "$0 --varlist=<varlist> --input=<in> --output=<out>\n";
+    exit 1;
+}

So the commit message is out of date (the new usage is more clear,
anyway).

The history makes more sense in Thomas's git repository. I changed the
usage in a later commit, but that commit was squashed.