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Re: [PATCH] Remove '< >' from [<options>] since it's not necessary.

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tom fogal <tfogal@alumni.unh.edu>
Date
Sep 20, 2009, 20:52 UTC
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Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com> writes:
> -	"git log [<options>] [<since>..<until>] [[--] <path>...]\n"
> +	"git log [options] [<since>..<until>] [[--] <path>...]\n"
>  	"   or: git show [options] <object>...";

To me, "<blah>" implies to me that the other meant, "something which is sort-of `blah'-ish but is not actually the string literal, `blah'", whereas `blah' means, "the string literal, `blah'."

-tom
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  1. Remove '< >' from [<options>] since it's not necessary.Thiago Farina, Sep 20, 2009
  2. tom fogalSep 20, 2009
  3. tom fogalSep 20, 2009
  4. Matthieu MoySep 21, 2009

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