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To:     =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/34] doc/UX: make txt & -h output more consistent
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=C3=86var Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0 Bjarmason  <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> We are currently wildly inconsistent in whether the SYNOPSIS in the
> manual page matches the first line of the -h output, and as we add new
> options we routinely forget to add them to one or the other (or both).
>
> Without a more complex approach it's hard to do something about the
> "or both" case. But we can rather easily test whether the -h output
> matches the *.txt version, and report differences.

Nice.