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Re: [PATCH v3] column, range-diff: downcase option description

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Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Date
Mar 29, 2021, 13:46 UTC
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Super minor nit - missing space after full stop.
On 29/03/2021 11:45, Chinmoy via GitGitGadget wrote:
> From: Chinmoy Chakraborty <chinmoy12c@gmail.com>
>
> It is customary not to begin the help text for each option given to
> the parse-options API with a capital letter.Various (sub)commands'
s/Various/ Various/

-- Philip

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> option arrays don't follow the guideline provided by the parse_options
> Documentation regarding the descriptions.
>
> Downcase the first word of some option descriptions for "column"
> and "range-diff".
>
> Signed-off-by: Chinmoy Chakraborty <chinmoy12c@gmail.com>
> ---
>     column, range-diff: downcase option description
>     
>     It is customary not to begin the help text for each option given to the
>     parse-options API with a capital letter.Various (sub)commands' option
>     arrays don't follow the guideline provided by the parse_options
>     Documentation regarding the descriptions.
>     
>     Downcase the first word of some option descriptions for "column" and
>     "range-diff".
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Chinmoy Chakraborty chinmoy12c@gmail.com
>
> Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-920%2Fchinmoy12c%2Fissue_636-v3
> Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-920/chinmoy12c/issue_636-v3
> Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/920
>
> Range-diff vs v2:
>
>  1:  b032c2fa5b28 ! 1:  61be08b7dd73 Documentation: make (sub)command options conform to TD of option parsing
>      @@ Metadata
>       Author: Chinmoy Chakraborty <chinmoy12c@gmail.com>
>       
>        ## Commit message ##
>      -    Documentation: make (sub)command options conform to TD of option parsing
>      +    column, range-diff: downcase option description
>       
>      -    The Git suite option parsing API's Technical Documentation suggests this
>      -    about the option descriptions of a (sub)command:
>      +    It is customary not to begin the help text for each option given to
>      +    the parse-options API with a capital letter.Various (sub)commands'
>      +    option arrays don't follow the guideline provided by the parse_options
>      +    Documentation regarding the descriptions.
>       
>      -    `description` is a short string to describe the effect of the option.
>      -    It shall begin with a lower-case letter and a full stop (.) shall be
>      -    omitted at the end.
>      -
>      -    Various (sub)commands' option arrays don't follow the guideline provided
>      -    by the parse_options Documentation regarding the descriptions.
>      +    Downcase the first word of some option descriptions for "column"
>      +    and "range-diff".
>       
>           Signed-off-by: Chinmoy Chakraborty <chinmoy12c@gmail.com>
>       
>
>
>  builtin/column.c     | 8 ++++----
>  builtin/range-diff.c | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/builtin/column.c b/builtin/column.c
> index e815e148aa18..40d4b3bee2dd 100644
> --- a/builtin/column.c
> +++ b/builtin/column.c
> @@ -27,10 +27,10 @@ int cmd_column(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>  		OPT_STRING(0, "command", &real_command, N_("name"), N_("lookup config vars")),
>  		OPT_COLUMN(0, "mode", &colopts, N_("layout to use")),
>  		OPT_INTEGER(0, "raw-mode", &colopts, N_("layout to use")),
> -		OPT_INTEGER(0, "width", &copts.width, N_("Maximum width")),
> -		OPT_STRING(0, "indent", &copts.indent, N_("string"), N_("Padding space on left border")),
> -		OPT_INTEGER(0, "nl", &copts.nl, N_("Padding space on right border")),
> -		OPT_INTEGER(0, "padding", &copts.padding, N_("Padding space between columns")),
> +		OPT_INTEGER(0, "width", &copts.width, N_("maximum width")),
> +		OPT_STRING(0, "indent", &copts.indent, N_("string"), N_("padding space on left border")),
> +		OPT_INTEGER(0, "nl", &copts.nl, N_("padding space on right border")),
> +		OPT_INTEGER(0, "padding", &copts.padding, N_("padding space between columns")),
>  		OPT_END()
>  	};
>  
> diff --git a/builtin/range-diff.c b/builtin/range-diff.c
> index 78bc9fa77062..50318849d657 100644
> --- a/builtin/range-diff.c
> +++ b/builtin/range-diff.c
> @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ int cmd_range_diff(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>  	struct option range_diff_options[] = {
>  		OPT_INTEGER(0, "creation-factor",
>  			    &range_diff_opts.creation_factor,
> -			    N_("Percentage by which creation is weighted")),
> +			    N_("percentage by which creation is weighted")),
>  		OPT_BOOL(0, "no-dual-color", &simple_color,
>  			    N_("use simple diff colors")),
>  		OPT_PASSTHRU_ARGV(0, "notes", &other_arg,
>
> base-commit: 84d06cdc06389ae7c462434cb7b1db0980f63860
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  1. Documentation: amended usages of various (sub)commandsChinmoy via GitGitGadget, Mar 28, 2021
  2. Bagas SanjayaMar 28, 2021
  3. Bagas SanjayaMar 28, 2021
  4. Chinmoy ChakrabortyMar 28, 2021
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 28, 2021
  6. Bagas SanjayaMar 29, 2021
  7. Documentation: make (sub)command options conform to TD of option parsingChinmoy via GitGitGadget, Mar 28, 2021
  8. column, range-diff: downcase option descriptionChinmoy via GitGitGadget, Mar 29, 2021
  9. Bagas SanjayaMar 29, 2021
  10. Philip OakleyMar 29, 2021
  11. column, range-diff: downcase option descriptionChinmoy via GitGitGadget, Mar 29, 2021
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