Re: Unbalanced closing paren in help of git commit

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jul 8, 2024, 08:54 UTC
Message-ID: <20240708085440.GA819809@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <87o7792xgu.fsf@posteo.net>

On Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 12:33:21PM +0000, Tomas Nordin wrote:

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> The second line of the help message for git commit looks like this:
> 
>     [--dry-run] [(-c | -C | --squash) <commit> | --fixup [(amend|reword):]<commit>)]
> 
> See for example https://gitirc.eu/git-commit.html. It has two opening
> parens and three closing parens. <commit> ends with a closing paren
> before the closing bracket. Me and gsish (on IRC) suspect this is a
> misstake.
> 
> What do you think?

Yep, looks like a typo introduced by 00ea64ed7a (doc/git-commit: add documentation for fixup=[amend|reword] options, 2021-03-15).

Want to try your hand at producing a patch? (It's OK if the answer is no; it just seems like a good opportunity for somebody to get their feet wet on contributing).

-Peff