From: tom fogal <tfogal@alumni.unh.edu>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove '< >' from [<options>] since it's not necessary.
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:52:26 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <auto-000020523806@sci.utah.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:48:36 EDT." <1253476116-24284-1-git-send-email-tfransosi@gmail.com>
Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com> writes:
> - "git log [<options>] [<since>..<until>] [[--] <path>...]\n"
> + "git log [options] [<since>..<until>] [[--] <path>...]\n"
> " or: git show [options] <object>...";
To me, "<blah>" implies to me that the other meant, "something which
is sort-of `blah'-ish but is not actually the string literal, `blah'",
whereas `blah' means, "the string literal, `blah'."
-tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-20 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-20 19:48 [PATCH] Remove '< >' from [<options>] since it's not necessary Thiago Farina
2009-09-20 20:52 ` tom fogal [this message]
2009-09-20 21:12 ` tom fogal
2009-09-21 6:50 ` Matthieu Moy
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