From 0e5168fd18f3975d71d3a292b0e0df174bb884d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff King Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 06:33:15 -0400 Subject: 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 specifier in the usage to . That's what the documentation uses, and it does actually use the regular object lookup. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- builtin-cat-file.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'builtin-cat-file.c') 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|] ", - "git cat-file [--batch|--batch-check] < ", + "git cat-file (-t|-s|-e|-p|) ", + "git cat-file (--batch|--batch-check) < ", NULL }; -- cgit v1.2.3