# [PATCH] revert: add angle bracket around argument 'parent-number' in usage

1 messages from 2022-11-23 to 2022-11-23. Participants: Fangyi Zhou via GitGitGadget.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/58848

## Fangyi Zhou via GitGitGadget, 2022-11-23 22:11

Subject: [PATCH] revert: add angle bracket around argument 'parent-number' in usage
Message-ID: <pull.1386.git.git.1669241489179.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/pull.1386.git.git.1669241489179.gitgitgadget%40gmail.com

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From: Fangyi Zhou <me@fangyi.io>

8c9e292dc0 (doc txt & -h consistency: add missing options and labels,
2022-10-13) adds detailed usage line for revert and cherry-pick, which
both contain a flag `-m` for parent number.
Angle brackets shall be marked around parent-number, since it represents
an argument.

Signed-off-by: Fangyi Zhou <me@fangyi.io>
---
    revert: add angle bracket around argument 'parent-number' in usage
    
    8c9e292dc0 (doc txt & -h consistency: add missing options and labels,
    2022-10-13) adds detailed usage line for revert and cherry-pick, which
    both contain a flag -m for parent number. Angle brackets shall be marked
    around parent-number, since it represents an argument.
    
    Signed-off-by: Fangyi Zhou me@fangyi.io

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-1386%2Ffangyi-zhou%2Frevert-fix-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-1386/fangyi-zhou/revert-fix-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/1386

 Documentation/git-revert.txt | 2 +-
 builtin/revert.c             | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-revert.txt b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
index 5016755efb6..d2e10d3dceb 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-revert.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-revert - Revert some existing commits
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git revert' [--[no-]edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] [-S[<keyid>]] <commit>...
+'git revert' [--[no-]edit] [-n] [-m <parent-number>] [-s] [-S[<keyid>]] <commit>...
 'git revert' (--continue | --skip | --abort | --quit)
 
 DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/builtin/revert.c b/builtin/revert.c
index ee32c714a76..6a9b550a61f 100644
--- a/builtin/revert.c
+++ b/builtin/revert.c
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
  */
 
 static const char * const revert_usage[] = {
-	N_("git revert [--[no-]edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] [-S[<keyid>]] <commit>..."),
+	N_("git revert [--[no-]edit] [-n] [-m <parent-number>] [-s] [-S[<keyid>]] <commit>..."),
 	N_("git revert (--continue | --skip | --abort | --quit)"),
 	NULL
 };

base-commit: c000d916380bb59db69c78546928eadd076b9c7d
-- 
gitgitgadget

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