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Re: [PATCH] show --continue/skip etc. consistently in synopsis

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 17, 2019, 22:35 UTC
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Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm not sure I'd argue too hard one way or the other, but I do think the
> documentation for the various commands should try to be consistent and
> the am, cherry-pick, rebase and revert man pages all use a single line
> for these options (although rebase is missing the parentheses).

Good. Then please write these names in the proposed log message; the version I commented on looked a bit strange to single out "am", as if we are siding on a minority, but writing the names of its friends that share the convention would not give that wrong impression to the readers.

Thanks.
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  1. show --continue/skip etc. consistently in synopsisPhillip Wood, Jun 16, 2019
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  7. show --continue/skip etc. consistently in synopsisPhillip Wood, Jun 17, 2019

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