doc txt & -h consistency: use "[<label>...]" for "zero or more"
Correct uses of "<label>..." where we really meant to say "[<label>...]", i.e. the command in question taken an optional set of "<label>". As the CodingGuidelines notes "[o]ptional parts [should be] enclosed in square brackets". Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason committed
Oct 13, 2022 at 17:39 UTC
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Documentation/git-clean.txt
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index d5587cdd84..2000b4d75c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clean.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clean.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-clean - Remove untracked files from the working tree
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git clean' [-d] [-f] [-i] [-n] [-q] [-e <pattern>] [-x | -X] [--] <pathspec>...
+'git clean' [-d] [-f] [-i] [-n] [-q] [-e <pattern>] [-x | -X] [--] [<pathspec>...]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
builtin/clean.c
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index 6f039f555b..40ff2c578d 100644
--- a/builtin/clean.c
+++ b/builtin/clean.c
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ static struct string_list del_list = STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP;
static unsigned int colopts;
static const char *const builtin_clean_usage[] = {
- N_("git clean [-d] [-f] [-i] [-n] [-q] [-e <pattern>] [-x | -X] [--] <pathspec>..."),
+ N_("git clean [-d] [-f] [-i] [-n] [-q] [-e <pattern>] [-x | -X] [--] [<pathspec>...]"),
NULL
};
builtin/commit.c
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index fcf9c85947..21ad4ccbf8 100644
--- a/builtin/commit.c
+++ b/builtin/commit.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static const char * const builtin_commit_usage[] = {
};
static const char * const builtin_status_usage[] = {
- N_("git status [<options>] [--] <pathspec>..."),
+ N_("git status [<options>] [--] [<pathspec>...]"),
NULL
};