From: "Loyall, David" <david.loy...@nebraska.gov>
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 3:03 PM
As a unix user I'd expect the SYNOPSIS section at the top of the man
page to include all options that the command accepts. Mutually
exclusive options are expected to be in the form [-q | --progress
| --all-progress], such is already done.
I believe that you'd be safe in following
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap12.html
unless the git-* family of commands and documentation deviate from it
in a way that I am not aware of.
For an example of a command with a long list of options try `git
rev-parse --help`.
SYNOPSIS
git rev-parse [ --option ] <args>.
Philip
Hope this helps,
--Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: git-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:git-ow...@vger.kernel.org] On
Behalf Of Dmitry Ivankov
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 7:07 AM
To: Git List
Subject: [RFC] Documentation: --options in man-pages synopsys
Hi,
I've noticed that man git-pack-objects describes cmdline as following
SYNOPSYS
'git pack-objects' [-q | --progress | --all-progress]
[--all-progress-implied] [--
no-reuse-delta] [--delta-base-offset] [--non-empty] [--local]
[--incremental]
[--window=<n>] [--depth=<n>] [--revs [--unpacked | --all]] [--stdout
| base-
name] [--keep-true-parents] < object-list
while OPTIONS sections has even more options, --no-reuse-objects for
instance.
Should it be dealt with and how?
- add smth like ... at the tail of options in synopsys to indicate
that there are
more options
- add all the [--options] to synopsys
- drop all the [--options] as they all are optional
- pick only the most common/important ones like -q --progress, per
command or per command classes (hard to maintain and/or verify?)
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