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[34.83.5.33]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id n7-20020a170902e54700b00174f61a7d09sm10787148plf.247.2022.10.05.10.20.46 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 05 Oct 2022 10:20:47 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Junio C Hamano From: Junio C Hamano To: =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Victoria Dye , Taylor Blau , Emily Shaffer , Jonathan Nieder , John Cai , Eric Sunshine Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 22/36] doc txt & -h consistency: make "rerere" consistent References: <221003.86sfk5tgrs.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com> <221004.86fsg4t3x2.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2022 10:20:46 -0700 In-Reply-To: <221004.86fsg4t3x2.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com> (=?utf-8?B?IsOG?= =?utf-8?B?dmFyIEFybmZqw7Zyw7A=?= Bjarmason"'s message of "Tue, 04 Oct 2022 09:50:48 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason writes: >> Not really. A is a set of s, so >> writing "..." and "" are equivalent. > > So, "yes"? I.e. leaving aside "pathspec" or "pathspec-element" > "" is redundant to "..." in this intpreretation? If you leave it aside, then the answer becomes meaningless, no? > But for any given "" the "" is not the same as "..."? Correct. "" is equivalent to "[...]", but "" is not equivalent to "[...]" (with or without [] around the latter). > But that's really not what we mean most of the time, we *don't* want > that "..." on the argument to "--opt", because it only takes one > argument. Yes. So an option that takes a single pathspec element should say as such, I would think. But I thought that I have already said we should shrink the scope of this series, concentrating on making -h output and doc match, while adjusting the body text in the doc to match the phrasing used in the SYNOPSIS updated to match -h output, so this whole thing is outside the scope of this topic, I would say. Thanks.