# [PATCH] git.c: make usage match manual page

4 messages from 2013-03-11 to 2013-03-11. Participants: Kevin Bracey, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/33157

## Kevin Bracey, 2013-03-11 19:44

Subject: [PATCH] git.c: make usage match manual page
Message-ID: <1363031055-13562-1-git-send-email-kevin@bracey.fi>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1363031055-13562-1-git-send-email-kevin%40bracey.fi

```
Re-ordered option list in command-line usage to match the manual page.
Also makes it less than 80-characters wide.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Bracey <kevin@bracey.fi>
---
 git.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index d33f9b3..2a98624 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
 #include "run-command.h"
 
 const char git_usage_string[] =
-	"git [--version] [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path]\n"
+	"git [--version] [--help] [-c name=value]\n"
+	"           [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path]\n"
 	"           [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects] [--bare]\n"
 	"           [--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>] [--namespace=<name>]\n"
-	"           [-c name=value] [--help]\n"
 	"           <command> [<args>]";
 
 const char git_more_info_string[] =
-- 
1.8.2.rc3.7.g1100d09.dirty

```

## Junio C Hamano, 2013-03-11 19:58

Subject: Re: [PATCH] git.c: make usage match manual page
Message-ID: <7vli9t909a.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vli9t909a.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org
In-Reply-To: <1363031055-13562-1-git-send-email-kevin@bracey.fi>

```
Kevin Bracey <kevin@bracey.fi> writes:

> Re-ordered option list in command-line usage to match the manual page.
> Also makes it less than 80-characters wide.

Thanks (s/Re-ordered/reorder/ and s/makes/make/, though).

Is git.c the only one whose "-h" output does not match the manual
synopsis?

>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Bracey <kevin@bracey.fi>
> ---
>  git.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
> index d33f9b3..2a98624 100644
> --- a/git.c
> +++ b/git.c
> @@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
>  #include "run-command.h"
>  
>  const char git_usage_string[] =
> -	"git [--version] [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path]\n"
> +	"git [--version] [--help] [-c name=value]\n"
> +	"           [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path]\n"
>  	"           [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects] [--bare]\n"
>  	"           [--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>] [--namespace=<name>]\n"
> -	"           [-c name=value] [--help]\n"
>  	"           <command> [<args>]";
>  
>  const char git_more_info_string[] =

```

## Kevin Bracey, 2013-03-11 20:43

Subject: Re: [PATCH] git.c: make usage match manual page
Message-ID: <513E41E2.3060700@bracey.fi>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/513E41E2.3060700%40bracey.fi
In-Reply-To: <7vli9t909a.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

```
On 11/03/2013 21:58, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Kevin Bracey <kevin@bracey.fi> writes:
>
>> Re-ordered option list in command-line usage to match the manual page.
>> Also makes it less than 80-characters wide.
> Thanks (s/Re-ordered/reorder/ and s/makes/make/, though).

Got it. But I'm going to reword it, to follow the history of the manual 
change.

> Is git.c the only one whose "-h" output does not match the manual
> synopsis?
>
Generally, "-h" just puts "<options>" in the synopsis, and then prints a 
line per option, so most commands don't really match the manual "show 
all options on one line" style anyway. git.c is atypical. (Something 
else to look at for the whole git help thing? Should "git -h" print a 
option list in that style?)

But, yes, I've found a few others that are show almost the same thing as 
the manual but with subtle pointless differences. "git remote", for 
example. That's a larger project, I feel; the 80-column thing is key here.

Kevin

```

## Kevin Bracey, 2013-03-11 20:44

Subject: [PATCH] git.c: rearrange git synopsis to fit in 80 columns
Message-ID: <1363034650-14984-1-git-send-email-kevin@bracey.fi>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1363034650-14984-1-git-send-email-kevin%40bracey.fi
In-Reply-To: <1363031055-13562-1-git-send-email-kevin@bracey.fi>

```
Make the command line use the narrower synopsis layout that the man page
has used since commit 68e4b55.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Bracey <kevin@bracey.fi>
---
 git.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index d33f9b3..2a98624 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
 #include "run-command.h"
 
 const char git_usage_string[] =
-	"git [--version] [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path]\n"
+	"git [--version] [--help] [-c name=value]\n"
+	"           [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path]\n"
 	"           [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects] [--bare]\n"
 	"           [--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>] [--namespace=<name>]\n"
-	"           [-c name=value] [--help]\n"
 	"           <command> [<args>]";
 
 const char git_more_info_string[] =
-- 
1.8.2.rc3.7.g1100d09.dirty

```