From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:00:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] docs: use `...' instead of `*' for multiplicity
Message-ID: <m3hbebl7tv.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <1292650725-21149-3-git-send-email-lodatom@gmail.com>

Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com> writes:

> Finish the work of 0adda93 (Use parentheses and `...' where appropriate)
> to follow the rules set forth in Documentation/CodingGuidelines.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>

[...]

> -	"git describe [options] <committish>*",
> +	"git describe [options] <committish>...",

Isn't <sth>... one or more, while <sth>* is zero or more, i.e. shouldn't
<sth>* be replaced by [<sth>...]?

Hmmm... I see that <sth>* was actively wrong if it was to mean zero or
more, so your change doesn't only make documentation more consistent,
but fixes errorneous use of convention.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
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