From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:52:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [GSoC PATCH 1/2] repo: add the flag -z as an alias for --format=nul
Message-ID: <xmqq5xeg1mgj.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <6186055.lOV4Wx5bFT@cayenne>

Jean-Noël AVILA <jn.avila@free.fr> writes:

>> -git repo info [--format=(keyvalue|nul)] [<key>...]
>> +git repo info [--format=(keyvalue|nul)|-z] [<key>...]
>> 
>
> In fact the correct formatting is:
>
> [--format=(keyvalue|nul) | -z] [<key>...]
>
> As stated in "CodingGuidelines:
>
>  Use spacing around "|" token(s), but not immediately after opening or
>  before closing a [] or () pair:
>    Do: [-q | --quiet]
>    Don't: [-q|--quiet]
>
>  Don't use spacing around "|" tokens when they're used to separate the
>  alternate arguments of an option:
>     Do: --track[=(direct|inherit)]
>     Don't: --track[=(direct | inherit)]

Yup, thanks!