From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Git Mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: is the standard "[<options>]", and not "[options]" or other?
Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 12:15:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kbFFPMrQZLcupbp1VUk3U-ww2kV707u-ugRKzYgq5A1BA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1805240738260.6091@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 4:45 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
> but should the man pages be updated similarly? i can whip up a patch
> for that unless someone wants to comment on this further.
Yes, please!
I think [<options>] are the best, as they are pedantically correct.
[--options] is the worst, as there is not such thing as --options.
Thanks,
Stefan
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2018-05-24 11:45 is the standard "[<options>]", and not "[options]" or other? Robert P. J. Day
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