From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Git Mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: pedantry: is there a standard for what should be in the SYNOPSIS?
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:54:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171121175436.GA27041@aiede.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1711210925530.6795@DESKTOP-1GPMCEJ>
Hi,
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> following up on an earlier question of mine, is there a standard for
> what options should be listed in either the SYNOPSIS or the
> DESCRIPTION sections of a man page? i ask since i'm seeing some
> definite inconsistency.
No standard. Seems worth starting a discussion on what you'd like the
standard to be.
Jonathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-21 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-21 14:49 pedantry: is there a standard for what should be in the SYNOPSIS? Robert P. J. Day
2017-11-21 17:54 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2017-11-21 21:16 ` Robert P. J. Day
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