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From: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/8] docs: use `...' instead of `*' for multiplicity
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:38:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1292650725-21149-3-git-send-email-lodatom@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1292650725-21149-1-git-send-email-lodatom@gmail.com>

Finish the work of 0adda93 (Use parentheses and `...' where appropriate)
to follow the rules set forth in Documentation/CodingGuidelines.

Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-fsck.txt        |    2 +-
 Documentation/git-merge-index.txt |    2 +-
 Documentation/gitcli.txt          |    2 +-
 builtin/describe.c                |    2 +-
 builtin/merge-index.c             |    2 +-
 5 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
index 86f9b2b..38207a1 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
 'git fsck' [--tags] [--root] [--unreachable] [--cache] [--no-reflogs]
-	 [--[no-]full] [--strict] [--verbose] [--lost-found] [<object>*]
+	 [--[no-]full] [--strict] [--verbose] [--lost-found] [<object>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt
index 921b38f..3716309 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-merge-index - Run a merge for files needing merging
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git merge-index' [-o] [-q] <merge-program> (-a | [--] <file>*)
+'git merge-index' [-o] [-q] <merge-program> (-a | [--] <file>...)
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
index 6928724..eb65dcf 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcli.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ couple of magic command line options:
 +
 ---------------------------------------------
 $ git describe -h
-usage: git describe [options] <committish>*
+usage: git describe [options] <committish>...
 
     --contains            find the tag that comes after the commit
     --debug               debug search strategy on stderr
diff --git a/builtin/describe.c b/builtin/describe.c
index a0f52c1..34a8031 100644
--- a/builtin/describe.c
+++ b/builtin/describe.c
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 #define MAX_TAGS	(FLAG_BITS - 1)
 
 static const char * const describe_usage[] = {
-	"git describe [options] <committish>*",
+	"git describe [options] <committish>...",
 	"git describe [options] --dirty",
 	NULL
 };
diff --git a/builtin/merge-index.c b/builtin/merge-index.c
index 2c4cf5e..c683bbd 100644
--- a/builtin/merge-index.c
+++ b/builtin/merge-index.c
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ int cmd_merge_index(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_DFL);
 
 	if (argc < 3)
-		usage("git merge-index [-o] [-q] <merge-program> (-a | [--] <filename>*)");
+		usage("git merge-index [-o] [-q] <merge-program> (-a | [--] <filename>...)");
 
 	read_cache();
 
-- 
1.7.3.2

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-18  5:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-18  5:38 [PATCHv2 0/8] docs: use metavariables consistently Mark Lodato
2010-12-18  5:38 ` [PATCH 1/8] fsck docs: remove outdated and useless diagnostic Mark Lodato
2010-12-18  5:38 ` Mark Lodato [this message]
2010-12-18 10:00   ` [PATCH 2/8] docs: use `...' instead of `*' for multiplicity Jakub Narebski
2010-12-18 16:32     ` Mark Lodato
2010-12-18  5:38 ` [PATCH 3/8] docs: use <sha1> to mean unabbreviated ID Mark Lodato
2010-12-18  7:47   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-18 18:50     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-18  5:38 ` [PATCH 4/8] http-fetch docs: use <commit-id> consistently Mark Lodato
2010-12-18  7:51   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-18  5:38 ` [PATCH 5/8] grep docs: grep accepts a <tree-ish>, not a <tree> Mark Lodato
2010-12-18  5:38 ` [PATCH 6/8] docs: use <tree> instead of <tree-ish> Mark Lodato
2010-12-18  8:35   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-18  5:38 ` [PATCH 7/8] docs: use <commit> instead of <commit-ish> Mark Lodato
2010-12-18  8:39   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-18  5:38 ` [PATCH 8/8] describe docs: note that <commit> is optional Mark Lodato
2010-12-18  8:49 ` [PATCHv2 0/8] docs: use metavariables consistently Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-18 16:45   ` Mark Lodato
2010-12-18 20:27   ` Junio C Hamano

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