From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: manpages: consistent syntax Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:51:36 +0200 Message-ID: <4847FD78.5020906@trash.net> References: <20080528150425.20290.58521.stgit@woodpecker.roonstrasse.net> <4843D047.40103@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Max Kellermann , Netfilter Developer Mailing List To: Jan Engelhardt Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:45214 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753330AbYFEOvi (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2008 10:51:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Monday 2008-06-02 12:49, Patrick McHardy wrote: >> Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> commit 314cc5f0dd48c047e660f45aaaf4e86675ab5d74 >>> Author: Jan Engelhardt >>> Date: Tue May 6 19:47:33 2008 +0200 >>> >>> manpages: consistent syntax >>> >>> In the manpages, bold is used to denote characters the user has to >>> enter verbatim, italic denotes placeholders and non-highlighted >>> pieces are used as a structure: "[]" specifying an optional part, >>> "{}" a mandatory part, with "|" used for alternations. The "!" for >>> negation is better supported before the option than after it, too. >>> The patch makes a few files consistent with this style already used >>> in manpages. >> Applied, thanks. Please remember to sign off iptables patches in the >> future. > > I guess that's why it says Author: Patrick McHardy for this one in git.. :-) Probably. I usually use a correct authorname anyway, but seems I forgot this time.