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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-rebase.sh: Update USAGE string
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:14:21 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3prvd68uy.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <prvd3i9e.fsf@blue.sea.net>

Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:

> Present the options in -s|--long (short, long) order.

This is a good change (but might not make sense without the following
one)...

> Mention merge and new whitespace option.

...and this is not; usage string is now too long.

Please either use placeholder ([<whitespace>]), or enumerate
only short version of commands ([-i] [-v] [-m]) in synopsis,
or break synopsis into lines 80-column lines max.

> -USAGE='[--interactive | -i] [-v] [--onto <newbase>] <upstream> [<branch>]'
> +USAGE='[-i|--interactive] [-v|--verbose] [--whitespace={nowarn|warn|error|error-all|strip}] [-m|--merge] [--onto <newbase>] <upstream> [<branch>]'

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-03 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-03 20:19 [PATCH] git-rebase.sh: Update USAGE string Jari Aalto
2008-02-03 21:14 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2008-02-03 23:33 ` [PATCH] git-rebase.sh: Update USAGE string (No. 1) Jari Aalto
2008-02-03 23:41   ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-03 23:52   ` Jakub Narebski
2008-02-04  0:11     ` Jari Aalto
2008-02-04  0:27       ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-04  0:39       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-04 10:15         ` Jakub Narebski
2008-02-04 11:57           ` Mike Hommey
2008-02-04 12:53             ` Jakub Narebski
2008-02-04  0:24     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-04  8:04       ` [PATCH v3] git-rebase.sh: Update USAGE string Jari Aalto
2008-02-04 11:12   ` [PATCH] git-rebase.sh: Update USAGE string (No. 1) しらいしななこ
2008-02-04 15:06     ` rebase -i and --whitespace, was " Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-04 15:42       ` Jakub Narebski
2008-02-04 16:32         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-05 23:43         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-06  1:00           ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-04  0:16 ` [PATCH v2] git-rebase.sh: Update USAGE string Jari Aalto

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