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Unbalanced closing paren in help of git commit

From
Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net>
Date
Jul 7, 2024, 12:33 UTC
Message-ID
<87o7792xgu.fsf@posteo.net>
Hello List
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?
Please reply all, not suscribed to the list.

Best regards -- Tomas

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