Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix default directory of git bugreport -o

Started by Junio C Hamano on Sep 7, 2021

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Bagas Sanjaya [off-list ref] writes:
git bugreport writes bug report to the current directory by default,
instead of repository root.

Fix the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <redacted>
---
 Documentation/git-bugreport.txt | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Emily, ack?  It seems that after we cdup to the top, we adjust
either the value of -o or "" with the prefix to come up with the
output location, so the default seems to be "the current" as the
updated documentation says.

quoted hunk
diff --git a/Documentation/git-bugreport.txt b/Documentation/git-bugreport.txt
index 66e88c2e31..d8817bf3ce 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-bugreport.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bugreport.txt
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ OPTIONS
 -------
 -o <path>::
 --output-directory <path>::
-	Place the resulting bug report file in `<path>` instead of the root of
-	the Git repository.
+	Place the resulting bug report file in `<path>` instead of the current
+	directory.
 
 -s <format>::
 --suffix <format>::
base-commit: 6c40894d2466d4e7fddc047a05116aa9d14712ee
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