Git development
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Jean-Noël Avila via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Jean-Noël Avila" <jn.avila@free.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] doc: convert git-bisect to synopsis style
Date: Mon, 18 May 2026 09:26:37 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq4ik5d0le.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dca7f192f1e5cdfb57682feace0a4b3a10204376.1779049615.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> ("Jean-Noël Avila via GitGitGadget"'s message of "Sun, 17 May 2026 20:26:51 +0000")

"Jean-Noël Avila via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> From: =?UTF-8?q?Jean-No=C3=ABl=20Avila?= <jn.avila@free.fr>
>
> Convert Documentation/git-bisect.adoc to the modern synopsis style.
>
> - Replace [verse] with [synopsis] in the SYNOPSIS block

This was expected.

> - Remove single quotes around command names in the synopsis
> - Use backticks for inline commands, options, refs, and special values
> - Apply [synopsis] attribute to in-body command-form code blocks

This is very much unexpected.  I think everybody thought [synopsis]
was invented to be used for the SYNOPSIS section at the beginning of
each manual page, and ...

>  SYNOPSIS
>  --------
> -[verse]
> -'git bisect' start [--term-(bad|new)=<term-new> --term-(good|old)=<term-old>]
> -		   [--no-checkout] [--first-parent] [<bad> [<good>...]] [--] [<pathspec>...]
> ...
> -'git bisect' help
> +[synopsis]
> +git bisect start [--term-(bad|new)=<term-new> --term-(good|old)=<term-old>]
> +		 [--no-checkout] [--first-parent] [<bad> [<good>...]] [--] [<pathspec>...]
> ...
> +git bisect help

... a change like this is very much expected and understandable, but
new appearances of [synonsis] in places like:

> +[synopsis]
>  ------------------------------------------------
>  $ git bisect reset <commit>
>  ------------------------------------------------

and

> +[synopsis]
>  ------------------------------------------------
>  git bisect old [<rev>]
>  ------------------------------------------------

were a bit surprising and confusing.  They are not exactly command
syntax definitions (which is the SYNOPSIS section is about), but
examples of usage.  The one with '$' command line prompt feels
particularly confusing, as the prompt is not something that the
end-user gives, unlike what we write in the synopsis section.

Other than that, this is quite exciting.


  reply	other threads:[~2026-05-18  0:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-17 20:26 [PATCH 0/5] doc: convert another batch of files to synopsis style Jean-Noël Avila via GitGitGadget
2026-05-17 20:26 ` [PATCH 1/5] doc: convert git-bisect " Jean-Noël Avila via GitGitGadget
2026-05-18  0:26   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2026-05-18  2:10     ` Junio C Hamano
2026-05-17 20:26 ` [PATCH 2/5] doc: convert git-grep synopsis and options to new style Jean-Noël Avila via GitGitGadget
2026-05-17 20:26 ` [PATCH 3/5] doc: convert git-am " Jean-Noël Avila via GitGitGadget
2026-05-17 20:26 ` [PATCH 4/5] doc: convert git-apply " Jean-Noël Avila via GitGitGadget
2026-05-17 20:26 ` [PATCH 5/5] doc: convert git-imap-send " Jean-Noël Avila via GitGitGadget

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=xmqq4ik5d0le.fsf@gitster.g \
    --to=gitster@pobox.com \
    --cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=gitgitgadget@gmail.com \
    --cc=jn.avila@free.fr \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox