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Re: [PATCH] standardize usage strings that were missed the first time

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Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Date
May 4, 2015, 17:49 UTC
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2015-05-03 17:59 GMT-06:00 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
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> Here is my attempt.
>
> commit ce41720cad79d858f09ebfc88cf84a4b152645c7
> Author: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
> Date:   Thu Apr 2 15:26:56 2015 -0600
>
>     blame, log: format usage strings similarly to those in documentation
>
>     Earlier, 9c9b4f2f (standardize usage info string format, 2015-01-13)
>     tried to make usage-string in line with the documentation by
>
>         - Placing angle brackets around fill-in-the-blank parameters
>         - Putting dashes in multiword parameter names
>         - Adding spaces to [-f|--foobar] to make [-f | --foobar]
>         - Replacing <foobar>* with [<foobar>...]
>
>     but it missed a few places.
>
>     Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Looks great, thank you.
-Alex
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