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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 16/36] doc txt & -h consistency: use "<options>", not
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=C3=86var Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0 Bjarmason  <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> It's arguably more correct to say "[<option>...]" than either of these
> forms, but the vast majority of our documentation uses the
> "[<options>]" form to indicate an arbitrary number of options, let's
> do the same in these cases, which were the odd ones out.

Yeah, I agree these should say [<option>...] to mean zero-or-more of
them.  It may be fine, as long as it is clear that we use
[<options>] as a short-hand for it, though.