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Re: [PATCH] Improve usage messages

From
David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
Date
Apr 21, 2005, 16:43 UTC
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Petr Baudis wrote:
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> Dear diary, on Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 02:41:52PM CEST, I got a letter
> where Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de> told me that...
> 
>>This patch adds somewhat-improved usage messages to some of Linus' programs.
>>Specifically, they now handle -? / --help.

just so you know, the intention of doing the README.reference was to get all the docs in one place and then go back to the c and update the usage() to be consistent.

I started by doing
   grep usage *.c
:)
I'm actually working on diff-cache as we speak...
David
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  1. Improve usage messagesMatthias Urlichs, Apr 21, 2005
  2. Petr BaudisApr 21, 2005
  3. David GreavesApr 21, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 21, 2005

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