From: Nanako Shiraishi Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:19:48 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update 'git remote' usage and man page to match. Message-ID: <20091114071948.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> In-Reply-To: <32c343770911121715l7507b2d5j8c6cf8cccd1f1a61@mail.gmail.com> Quoting Tim Henigan writes: > This commit: > > 1) Removes documentation of '--verbose' from the synopsis portion > of the usage string since it is a general option. > > 2) Removes the 'remote' option from 'git remote update' in the > man page. This option had already been removed from the usage > string in the code, but the man page was not updated to match. > > Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan > --- The second change is good but why do you remove -v from the synopsis section? Why is it a good idea? Manual pages for many other commands list --verbose in their synopsis section.