Re: [PATCH] git-rebase.sh: Update USAGE string

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 3, 2008, 21:14 UTC
Message-ID: <m3prvd68uy.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <prvd3i9e.fsf@blue.sea.net>

Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:

> Present the options in -s|--long (short, long) order.

This is a good change (but might not make sense without the following one)...

> Mention merge and new whitespace option.

...and this is not; usage string is now too long.

Please either use placeholder ([<whitespace>]), or enumerate only short version of commands ([-i] [-v] [-m]) in synopsis, or break synopsis into lines 80-column lines max.

> -USAGE='[--interactive | -i] [-v] [--onto <newbase>] <upstream> [<branch>]'
> +USAGE='[-i|--interactive] [-v|--verbose] [--whitespace={nowarn|warn|error|error-all|strip}] [-m|--merge] [--onto <newbase>] <upstream> [<branch>]'

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Jakub Narebski
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