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author | Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> | 2018-08-02 00:31:33 +0200 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-08-03 08:31:28 -0700 |
commit | c67318ecb6ddef6b9ecf59a422c4a282594e602d (patch) | |
tree | 24ecf22f4fc3e37e112bebf610b83a4993d7ed13 /Documentation/howto | |
parent | Git 2.16.4 (diff) | |
download | tgif-c67318ecb6ddef6b9ecf59a422c4a282594e602d.tar.xz |
push: use PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP instead of unbalanced brackets
The option help text for the force-with-lease option to "git push"
reads like this:
$ git push -h 2>&1 | grep -e force-with-lease
--force-with-lease[=<refname>:<expect>]
which comes from having N_("refname>:<expect") as the argument help
text in the source code, with an aparent lack of "<" and ">" at both
ends.
It turns out that parse-options machinery takes the whole string and
encloses it inside a pair of "<>", to make it easier for majority
cases that uses a single token placeholder.
The help string was written in a funnily unbalanced way knowing that
the end result would balance out, by somebody who forgot the
presence of PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP, which is the escape hatch
mechanism designed to help such a case. We just should use the
official escape hatch instead.
Because ":<expect>" part can be omitted to ask Git to guess, it may
be more correct to spell it as "<refname>[:<expect>]", but that is
not the focus of this topic.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Helped-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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