From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.1 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80ECC1F462 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:35:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726724AbfFQWfg (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jun 2019 18:35:36 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com ([64.147.108.70]:51330 "EHLO pb-smtp1.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726088AbfFQWfg (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jun 2019 18:35:36 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29831159C51; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 18:35:34 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=mA7AG2F+dKto4U4GCZkS8VO6y1g=; b=W1sKp0 CGwjI5ZwCBz0Ouh8z8GwgFcZie3bycyeR6hzVWdRazthS+2g3Rc1w6TkOiBPzkT1 l2eK5XXI4uOfGIdA3F8Xwk2cRY/p6r6q0PsFX0r5jQCJU9xKsDNGh6m049slX0WR dssg0GW2gSx1LLC6EuDmYLxBoFrSkBtzmYNSk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=SAAkk040jLQPmBQUdoYbAtpViza0NzWl MnDvaT/iI+0YZ+N719cTDaE2UcgGLAu/amlg6j5ieZ+itsFrQse5sF+g8SIOjuXh PGpn/pjsxbD0abVDUjYAUSGfSxs0O33He2OnA8Yta1vXfRgoAKiZdHLGJEqpmM3Z kPzDiVYraVI= Received: from pb-smtp1.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 221B2159C50; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 18:35:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [34.76.80.147]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8938C159C4F; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 18:35:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Phillip Wood Cc: Git Mailing List , Phillip Wood Subject: Re: [PATCH] show --continue/skip etc. consistently in synopsis References: <20190616132457.19413-1-phillip.wood123@gmail.com> <991b0908-4ec5-2d19-4df3-df3eb28632c2@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 15:35:32 -0700 In-Reply-To: <991b0908-4ec5-2d19-4df3-df3eb28632c2@gmail.com> (Phillip Wood's message of "Mon, 17 Jun 2019 10:15:25 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 3813DA80-9150-11E9-ABA8-46F8B7964D18-77302942!pb-smtp1.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Phillip Wood writes: > I'm not sure I'd argue too hard one way or the other, but I do think the > documentation for the various commands should try to be consistent and > the am, cherry-pick, rebase and revert man pages all use a single line > for these options (although rebase is missing the parentheses). Good. Then please write these names in the proposed log message; the version I commented on looked a bit strange to single out "am", as if we are siding on a minority, but writing the names of its friends that share the convention would not give that wrong impression to the readers. Thanks.