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| author | Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | 2009-05-25 06:33:15 -0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-05-25 12:08:15 -0700 |
| commit | 0e5168fd18f3975d71d3a292b0e0df174bb884d5 (patch) | |
| tree | bbeb407f4d5fc43c3674be1968699da7955de118 /builtin-cat-file.c | |
| parent | fa250759794ab98e6edfbbf2f6aa2cb912e535eb (diff) | |
| download | git-0e5168fd18f3975d71d3a292b0e0df174bb884d5.tar.gz | |
fix cat-file usage message and documentation
cat-file with an object on the command line requires an
option to tell it what to output (type, size, pretty-print,
etc). However, the square brackets in the usage imply that
those options are not required. This patch switches them to
parentheses to indicate "required but grouped-OR" (curly
braces might also work, but this follows the convention used
already by "git stash").
While we're at it, let's change the <sha1> specifier in the
usage to <object>. That's what the documentation uses, and
it does actually use the regular object lookup.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'builtin-cat-file.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | builtin-cat-file.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/builtin-cat-file.c b/builtin-cat-file.c index 8fad19daed..43ffe7ffae 100644 --- a/builtin-cat-file.c +++ b/builtin-cat-file.c @@ -201,8 +201,8 @@ static int batch_objects(int print_contents) } static const char * const cat_file_usage[] = { - "git cat-file [-t|-s|-e|-p|<type>] <sha1>", - "git cat-file [--batch|--batch-check] < <list_of_sha1s>", + "git cat-file (-t|-s|-e|-p|<type>) <object>", + "git cat-file (--batch|--batch-check) < <list_of_objects>", NULL }; |