From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] git push: remove incomplete options list from help text Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:41:06 -0700 Message-ID: <7v3a5gaqkt.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <7v8wfi1fya.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4ADB4AE8.5070007@hartwork.org> <20091018235240.GU6115@genesis.frugalware.org> <20091019115412.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> <20091019041033.GB7170@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Nanako Shiraishi , Junio C Hamano , Miklos Vajna , Sebastian Pipping , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 19 07:41:27 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mzkzn-0008Ii-23 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:41:27 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752802AbZJSFlS (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:41:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752674AbZJSFlR (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:41:17 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:46878 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752634AbZJSFlR (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:41:17 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 678255E1F9; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:41:20 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=+EHsc+rs3SCJK0mzqEZeWgVn5zw=; b=ZyKe6h Ruz2SctLQIdYL8CZJ9eoQ2+0R46ed1P2ZFJ2fLHs39zgS2/H+oyJDB0gvWiULskw cYN9SwFv1gbxkXuziuMCsH9edH9Q8I5v7/DMNnLb6kKj53Jp2H0ddqsMTYfepAr5 6SWXd7+mGGfMUx8XZHBR4WcQQoe0FEv/0lXCI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=aC0GZFZp9iYJVtCMTwHXdtbwT6ovSj3W 2Rjeo8iRbSkV7XgmZKkE/KAnhyAewI+81ZqhgqWLEOdVWKWeQeX4CIb5jCvSDXwz exN4AbnaaKkAlWsLqpoGfFrSo2s5jilv27g64qYuaeUVnCmg1ORLGDI7GSjJ/EiW K7Cm4TuMexk= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12E535E1F6; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:41:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2EBD55E1F3; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:41:08 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20091019041033.GB7170@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon\, 19 Oct 2009 00\:10\:34 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 04331A40-BC72-11DE-ADCE-1B12EE7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King writes: > Probably few people read it, as it was buried deep in a thread. But > maybe we should settle on a rule like "short synopsis for usage, long > synopsis for manpage" or whatever people think is best. > > Also, minor nit with your patch: should it be "[]"? Thanks, I agree with you on both counts.