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From: Carlos Rica <jasampler@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix documentation syntax of optional arguments in short options.
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:07:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47FCA362.3090607@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47FC4510.6080904@gmail.com>

When an argument for an option is optional, like in -n from git-tag,
puting a space between the option and the argument is interpreted
as a missing argument for the option plus an isolated argument.
Documentation now reflects the need to write the parameter following
the option -n, as in "git tag -nARG", for instance.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Rica <jasampler@gmail.com>
---

   I forgot to make the same change to the command's syntax in builtin-tag.c.

   I didn't check if this also happens for OPTION_STRING, this is only for
   OPTION_INTEGER, which seems to be only used in git-tag. I must note that
   all this is related to the PARSE_OPT_OPTARG option, which is used only
   (apart from builtin-tag.c) in builtin-rev-parse.c but in a different way.

 Documentation/git-tag.txt |    4 ++--
 builtin-tag.c             |    2 +-
 parse-options.c           |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
index c22fb71..4b6fd90 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 [verse]
 'git-tag' [-a | -s | -u <key-id>] [-f] [-m <msg> | -F <file>]  <name> [<head>]
 'git-tag' -d <name>...
-'git-tag' [-n [<num>]] -l [<pattern>]
+'git-tag' [-n[<num>]] -l [<pattern>]
 'git-tag' -v <name>...

 DESCRIPTION
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ OPTIONS
 -v::
 	Verify the gpg signature of the given tag names.

--n <num>::
+-n<num>::
 	<num> specifies how many lines from the annotation, if any,
 	are printed when using -l.
 	The default is not to print any annotation lines.
diff --git a/builtin-tag.c b/builtin-tag.c
index 8dd959f..129ff57 100644
--- a/builtin-tag.c
+++ b/builtin-tag.c
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 static const char * const git_tag_usage[] = {
 	"git-tag [-a|-s|-u <key-id>] [-f] [-m <msg>|-F <file>] <tagname> [<head>]",
 	"git-tag -d <tagname>...",
-	"git-tag -l [-n [<num>]] [<pattern>]",
+	"git-tag -l [-n[<num>]] [<pattern>]",
 	"git-tag -v <tagname>...",
 	NULL
 };
diff --git a/parse-options.c b/parse-options.c
index e87cafb..acf3fe3 100644
--- a/parse-options.c
+++ b/parse-options.c
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ void usage_with_options_internal(const char * const *usagestr,
 			break;
 		case OPTION_INTEGER:
 			if (opts->flags & PARSE_OPT_OPTARG)
-				pos += fprintf(stderr, " [<n>]");
+				pos += fprintf(stderr, "[<n>]");
 			else
 				pos += fprintf(stderr, " <n>");
 			break;
-- 
1.5.3.4

      reply	other threads:[~2008-04-09 11:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-09  4:24 [PATCH] Fix documentation syntax of optional arguments in short options Carlos Rica
2008-04-09 11:07 ` Carlos Rica [this message]

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