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From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>,
	Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>,
	git <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: improve usage string in MyFirstContribution
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 15:00:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPig+cQJRwfEnsPwY=Cwwy2zPU+=rd+5XJckh7=iEjsb2h1A7g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqmuiakgaq.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 1:19 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:
> > On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 6:43 AM Christian Couder
> > <christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 11:29 PM Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com> wrote:
> >> > It doesn't require 1 or more args - you can run it with no args. So it
> >> > might be better suited to state the args as optional:
> >> >
> >> >   'git psuh [arg]...'
> >>
> >> Yeah sure, I will will resend soon with such changes.
> >
> > More correct would be "git psuh [<arg>]".
>
> I think this takes 0 or more, not 0 or 1, so "git psuh [<arg>...]",
> no?

I hadn't read the tutorial, but looking at it now, I see that it
indeed takes zero or more, so "git psuh [<arg>...]" would be best.

      reply	other threads:[~2019-06-21 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-19 22:13 [PATCH] doc: improve usage string in MyFirstContribution Christian Couder
2019-06-20 21:29 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-06-21 10:43   ` Christian Couder
2019-06-21 16:37     ` Eric Sunshine
2019-06-21 17:18       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-21 19:00         ` Eric Sunshine [this message]

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