From: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-rebase.sh: Update USAGE string (No. 1)
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:11:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <zluh1sxv.fsf@blue.sea.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3lk6161jo.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (Jakub Narebski's message of "Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:52:23 -0800 (PST)")
* Sun 2008-02-03 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> INBOX
> I would say "[--whitespace=<option>]" or "[--whitespace=<action>]"
> instead of introducing yet not agreed upon notation (this has the
> advantage of shortening synopisis, which should be short IMHO).
The "{a|b|c}" is a used syntax. See cpio(1).
cpio {-o|--create} [-0acvABLV] ...
The information about values to --whitespace is buried under 2 manual
pages. A help that displays the values immediately is more helpful. The
--whitespace option is used very frequently.
Jari
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-04 0:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-03 20:19 [PATCH] git-rebase.sh: Update USAGE string Jari Aalto
2008-02-03 21:14 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-02-03 23:33 ` [PATCH] git-rebase.sh: Update USAGE string (No. 1) Jari Aalto
2008-02-03 23:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-03 23:52 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-02-04 0:11 ` Jari Aalto [this message]
2008-02-04 0:27 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-04 0:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-04 10:15 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-02-04 11:57 ` Mike Hommey
2008-02-04 12:53 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-02-04 0:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-04 8:04 ` [PATCH v3] git-rebase.sh: Update USAGE string Jari Aalto
2008-02-04 11:12 ` [PATCH] git-rebase.sh: Update USAGE string (No. 1) しらいしななこ
2008-02-04 15:06 ` rebase -i and --whitespace, was " Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-04 15:42 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-02-04 16:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-05 23:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-06 1:00 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-04 0:16 ` [PATCH v2] git-rebase.sh: Update USAGE string Jari Aalto
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