Re: [RFC] Documentation: --options in man-pages synopsys

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From: "Loyall, David" <david.loyall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 3:03 PM
As a unix user I'd expect the SYNOPSIS section at the top of the man page to include all options that the command accepts. Mutually exclusive options are expected to be in the form [-q | --progress | --all-progress], such is already done.

I believe that you'd be safe in following http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap12.html unless the git-* family of commands and documentation deviate from it in a way that I am not aware of.


For an example of a command with a long list of options try `git rev-parse --help`.

SYNOPSIS
   git rev-parse [ --option ] <args>.

Philip


Hope this helps,
--Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: git-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:git-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Dmitry Ivankov
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 7:07 AM
To: Git List
Subject: [RFC] Documentation: --options in man-pages synopsys

Hi,

I've noticed that man git-pack-objects describes cmdline as following

SYNOPSYS
'git pack-objects' [-q | --progress | --all-progress] [--all-progress-implied] [-- no-reuse-delta] [--delta-base-offset] [--non-empty] [--local] [--incremental] [--window=<n>] [--depth=<n>] [--revs [--unpacked | --all]] [--stdout | base-
name] [--keep-true-parents] < object-list

while OPTIONS sections has even more options, --no-reuse-objects for
instance.

Should it be dealt with and how?
- add smth like ... at the tail of options in synopsys to indicate that there are
more options
- add all the [--options] to synopsys
- drop all the [--options] as they all are optional
- pick only the most common/important ones like -q --progress, per
command or per command classes (hard to maintain and/or verify?)
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