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[PATCH] man: rearrange git synopsis to fit in 80 lines

From
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Date
Feb 14, 2012, 23:54 UTC
Message-ID
<1329263661-20194-1-git-send-email-zbyszek@in.waw.pl>

The line was extended in 2dd8c3 ('git: add --info-path and --man-path options'), and the formatted man output stopped fitting into the 80 column window.

Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
---
Just a small thing which I noticed when looking at git -p help --all
example used by Junio.
 Documentation/git.txt | 6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index c991430..2a5a756 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ git - the stupid content tracker
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git' [--version] [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path]
+'git' [--version] [--help] [-c <name>=<value>]
+    [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path]
     [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects] [--bare]
     [--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>] [--namespace=<name>]
-    [-c <name>=<value>]
-    [--help] <command> [<args>]
+    <command> [<args>]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
-- 
1.7.9.6.ga1838.dirty
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  1. man: rearrange git synopsis to fit in 80 linesZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 14, 2012

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