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[PATCH] ls-files: use imperative mood for -X and -z option description

From
Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 20, 2021, 12:19 UTC
Message-ID
<20210920121940.905549-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com>

Usage description for -X and -z options use descriptive instead of imperative mood. Change it for consistency with other options.

Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
---
 builtin/ls-files.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/ls-files.c b/builtin/ls-files.c
index 29a26ad8ae..1f38cd7b17 100644
--- a/builtin/ls-files.c
+++ b/builtin/ls-files.c
@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ int cmd_ls_files(int argc, const char **argv, const char *cmd_prefix)
 	struct option builtin_ls_files_options[] = {
 		/* Think twice before adding "--nul" synonym to this */
 		OPT_SET_INT('z', NULL, &line_terminator,
-			N_("paths are separated with NUL character"), '\0'),
+			N_("separate paths with NUL character"), '\0'),
 		OPT_BOOL('t', NULL, &show_tag,
 			N_("identify the file status with tags")),
 		OPT_BOOL('v', NULL, &show_valid_bit,
@@ -651,7 +651,7 @@ int cmd_ls_files(int argc, const char **argv, const char *cmd_prefix)
 			N_("skip files matching pattern"),
 			PARSE_OPT_NONEG, option_parse_exclude),
 		OPT_CALLBACK_F('X', "exclude-from", &dir, N_("file"),
-			N_("exclude patterns are read from <file>"),
+			N_("read exclude patterns from <file>"),
 			PARSE_OPT_NONEG, option_parse_exclude_from),
 		OPT_STRING(0, "exclude-per-directory", &dir.exclude_per_dir, N_("file"),
 			N_("read additional per-directory exclude patterns in <file>")),

base-commit: 4c719308ce59dc70e606f910f40801f2c6051b24
-- 
2.25.1
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