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[PATCH 1/5] Add Long Usage instead of simple usage

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imyousuf@gmail.com <imyousuf@gmail.com>
Date
May 3, 2008, 13:53 UTC
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From: Imran M Yousuf <imyousuf@smartitengineering.com>

With the already available commands the synopsis is quite hard to read; thus converted it to Long usage instead. In process also updated the file comment.

Signed-off-by: Imran M Yousuf <imyousuf@smartitengineering.com>
---
 git-submodule.sh |   13 +++++++++----
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index ce0f00c..a5ee2e5 100755
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -1,12 +1,17 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 #
-# git-submodules.sh: add, init, update or list git submodules
+# git-submodules.sh: add, init, update, summary or status git submodules
 #
 # Copyright (c) 2007 Lars Hjemli
 
-USAGE="[--quiet] [--cached] \
-[add <repo> [-b branch]|status|init|update|summary [-n|--summary-limit <n>] [<commit>]] \
-[--] [<path>...]"
+USAGE="<command> <options>
+Use $0 -h for more details"
+# Did not use '\' at the end of the lines to ensure that each synopsis
+# are in a separate line
+LONG_USAGE="$0 add [-q|--quiet] [-b|--branch branch] <repository> [<path>]
+$0 [status] [-q|--quiet] [-c|--cached] [--] [<path>...]
+$0 init|update [-q|--quiet] [--] [<path>...]
+$0 summary [--cached] [-n|--summary-limit <n>] [<commit>]"
 OPTIONS_SPEC=
 . git-sh-setup
 require_work_tree
-- 
1.5.4.2
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  3. 3/5 Add Custom argument input support to git submodule recurse subcommandimyousuf@gmail.com, May 3, 2008
  4. 4/5 Add pre command argument to git submodule recurse subcommandimyousuf@gmail.com, May 3, 2008
  5. 5/5 Add documentation for the recurse subcommandimyousuf@gmail.com, May 3, 2008
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