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From: tom fogal <tfogal@alumni.unh.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove '< >' from [<options>] since it's not necessary.
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:52:26 -0600
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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