more pedantry -- was digging through "man git-diff" and noticed the
inconsistency in how options are represented. first, in the synopsis,
you see "[options]":
SYNOPSIS
git diff [options] [<commit>] [--] [<path>...]
git diff [options] --cached [<commit>] [--] [<path>...]
git diff [options] <commit> <commit> [--] [<path>...]
git diff [options] <blob> <blob>
git diff [options] [--no-index] [--] <path> <path>
while just below that in DESCRIPTION, it's all "[--options]":
git diff [--options] [--] [<path>...]
^^^^^^^^^^^
a further search produced this from RelNotes/2.7.0.txt:
"A couple of commands still showed "[options]" in their usage string
to note where options should come on their command line, but we
spell that "[<options>]" in most places these days."
so, "git diff -h" does in fact use the allegedly encouraged syntax:
$ git diff -h
usage: git diff [<options>] [<commit> [<commit>]] [--] [<path>...]
$
but should the man pages be updated similarly? i can whip up a patch
for that unless someone wants to comment on this further.
rday
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