Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Confusingly, as far as I can see, the manpages of the following commands
> seem to use the "one or more" meaning:
> git merge-base
> ...
> ("git mv" uses both meanings in its synopsis. The two "git tag"
> invocations seem to do nothing with zero arguments and do not return an
> error.)
>
> If the above commands really use the "one or more" meaning, that would
> mean both versions are used in the documentation. I'd say it would be
> better to stick to one meaning throughout the manpages.
You are absolutely right. We would want consistency.
I do not have any objection to make sure that we uniformly use ellipses
for one-or-more (and enclose them in [] if we want zero-or-more). Are
these two that your patch touched the only ones that need fixing?
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