From: tom fogal <tfogal@alumni.unh.edu>
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:52:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove '< >' from [<options>] since it's not necessary.
Message-ID: <auto-000020523806@sci.utah.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1253476116-24284-1-git-send-email-tfransosi@gmail.com>

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