From: Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo•net>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unbalanced closing paren in help of git commit
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2024 19:35:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87le2b3cew.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240708085440.GA819809@coredump.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:
> On Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 12:33:21PM +0000, Tomas Nordin wrote:
>
>> The second line of the help message for git commit looks like this:
>>
>> [--dry-run] [(-c | -C | --squash) <commit> | --fixup [(amend|reword):]<commit>)]
>>
>> See for example https://gitirc.eu/git-commit.html. It has two opening
>> parens and three closing parens. <commit> ends with a closing paren
>> before the closing bracket. Me and gsish (on IRC) suspect this is a
>> misstake.
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> Yep, looks like a typo introduced by 00ea64ed7a (doc/git-commit: add
> documentation for fixup=[amend|reword] options, 2021-03-15).
I stumbled upon it while working on a synopsis parsing tool, similar to
the Python docopt if familiar.
> Want to try your hand at producing a patch? (It's OK if the answer is
> no; it just seems like a good opportunity for somebody to get their feet
> wet on contributing).
I can try, why not? Should I hang it up on this thread so to say. Is
this a bug report?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-08 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-07 12:33 Unbalanced closing paren in help of git commit Tomas Nordin
2024-07-08 8:54 ` Jeff King
2024-07-08 19:35 ` Tomas Nordin [this message]
2024-07-08 23:35 ` Jeff King
2024-07-08 19:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-07-21 12:21 ` Tomas Nordin
2024-07-22 18:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-07-22 22:59 ` Tomas Nordin
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