From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Bolle Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: [TRIVIAL] Documentation: add: ... is optional Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:06:45 +0200 Message-ID: <1250003205.2707.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1249995790.1589.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090811145041.GB12956@vidovic> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Sebrecht X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 11 17:07:00 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MaswF-0005zk-RF for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:07:00 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753033AbZHKPGu (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:06:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752931AbZHKPGu (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:06:50 -0400 Received: from smtp-out0.tiscali.nl ([195.241.79.175]:44825 "EHLO smtp-out0.tiscali.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752740AbZHKPGu (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:06:50 -0400 Received: from [212.123.169.34] (helo=[192.168.1.61]) by smtp-out0.tiscali.nl with esmtp (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1Masw6-0005Mz-Mb; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:06:50 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20090811145041.GB12956@vidovic> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.27.5 (2.27.5-3.kb.1.fc12) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 16:50 +0200, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > The 11/08/09, Paul Bolle wrote: > > > ... is optional (e.g. when the --all or --update > > options are used) so use square brackets in the synopsis. > > So is needed in all other cases. Since it is an optional argument in those cases I'd say it is better to indicate that it is optional in the synopsis too. Paul Bolle