Re: [PATCH 01/34] CodingGuidelines: update and clarify command-line conventions

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 8, 2022, 16:41 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqzgf9rf81.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <220908.865yhyl31c.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> "Other than that" as in "let's fix that phrasing" or "let's not have
> that concept as part of these guidelines".

"Other than that" meaning "I do not know what exactly you meant about the 'inside of', so I do not think I can tell you to get rid of it altogether or fix it in some way, but other things looked OK".

I think "( -q | --quiet )" -> "(-q | --quiet)" is a good idea.

> I think the phrasing obviously needs to be fixed, here I was just
> attempting to cover a blind spot where the guidelines said nothing, and
> I picked whatever was the most common convention (as the rest of the
> series shows).

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