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authorHiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>2016-01-06 20:04:34 +0100
committerHiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>2016-01-06 20:06:06 +0100
commit12a96d466da342af96777fd94f0b12dd4b6484c0 (patch)
treebcb9f3281e4ee1e68996c112e443e616d34b70f1 /stagit.1
parentede4982f67f54904a1be6de77c6db033d56b0a34 (diff)
update man pages: document stripping of .git suffix
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diff --git a/stagit.1 b/stagit.1
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@@ -34,11 +34,12 @@ commit/commitid.html . This file will contain the diff and diffstat of the
commit. It will write the string "binary files differ" if the data is
considered to be non-textual.
.Pp
-The basename of the directory is used as the name.
+The basename of the directory is used as the name. The suffix ".git" is
+removed from the basename, this is commonly used for "bare" repos.
.Pp
The content of the follow files specifies the meta data for each repository:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
-.It .git/description or description (bare repos).
+.It .git/description or description (bare repo).
description
.It .git/owner or owner (bare repo).
owner of repository