From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Max Kellermann <max@duempel.org>,
Netfilter Developer Mailing List
<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: manpages: consistent syntax
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:51:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4847FD78.5020906@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0806051647590.29055@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Monday 2008-06-02 12:49, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>> commit 314cc5f0dd48c047e660f45aaaf4e86675ab5d74
>>> Author: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
>>> Date: Tue May 6 19:47:33 2008 +0200
>>>
>>> manpages: consistent syntax
>>>
>>> In the manpages, bold is used to denote characters the user has to
>>> enter verbatim, italic denotes placeholders and non-highlighted
>>> pieces are used as a structure: "[]" specifying an optional part,
>>> "{}" a mandatory part, with "|" used for alternations. The "!" for
>>> negation is better supported before the option than after it, too.
>>> The patch makes a few files consistent with this style already used
>>> in manpages.
>> Applied, thanks. Please remember to sign off iptables patches in the
>> future.
>
> I guess that's why it says Author: Patrick McHardy for this one in git.. :-)
Probably. I usually use a correct authorname anyway, but seems
I forgot this time.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-05 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-28 15:04 [PATCH] fixed the position of the exclamation mark Max Kellermann
2008-05-28 16:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-28 16:45 ` manpages: consistent syntax Jan Engelhardt
2008-06-02 10:49 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-05 14:48 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-06-05 14:51 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
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