From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 03:34:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] git-commit.txt: Correct option alternatives
Message-ID: <200806070534.45761.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
In-Reply-To: <1212798261-26785-1-git-send-email-s-beyer@gmx.net>

Le samedi 7 juin 2008, Stephan Beyer a écrit :
>
> Furthermore, for long-option consistency --author <author>
> is changed to --author=<author>.

[...]

> The second hunk is: --author <author> is advertised for historical
> reasons (I guess), but all the other long options with an argument
> are --long-opt=<arg>, e.g. --message=<msg> or --cleanup=<mode>.
> (Notice the equals sign.)
> Because parse_long_opt() accepts both, I changed this for consistency
> reasons.

[...]

> @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ git-commit - Record changes to the repository
>  SYNOPSIS
>  --------
>  [verse]
> -'git-commit' [-a | --interactive] [-s] [-v] [-u]
> -	   [(-c | -C) <commit> | -F <file> | -m <msg> | --amend]
> +'git-commit' [-a | --interactive] [-s] [-v] [-u] [--amend]
> +	   [(-c | -C) <commit>] [-F <file> | -m <msg>]
>  	   [--allow-empty] [--no-verify] [-e] [--author <author>]

In the above line there is still "[--author <author>]" without "=",

>  	   [--cleanup=<mode>] [--] [[-i | -o ]<file>...]

while in this line there is "[--cleanup=<mode>]" with "=".

So I think that to be consistent, "[--author=<author>]" (with "=") should be 
used in the SYNOPSIS too.

> @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ OPTIONS
>  	Take the commit message from the given file.  Use '-' to
>  	read the message from the standard input.
>
> ---author <author>::
> +--author=<author>::
>  	Override the author name used in the commit.  Use
>  	`A U Thor <author@example.com>` format.

Thanks,
Christian.