Wrap both placeholders in the argument help string in angular brackets to signal that users needs replace them with some actual value. Use the flag PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP to prevent parseopt from adding another pair. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> --- builtin/pack-objects.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/pack-objects.c b/builtin/pack-objects.c index ebc8cefb53..3a5d1fa317 100644 --- a/builtin/pack-objects.c +++ b/builtin/pack-objects.c @@ -3110,9 +3110,9 @@ int cmd_pack_objects(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) OPT_BOOL(0, "all-progress-implied", &all_progress_implied, N_("similar to --all-progress when progress meter is shown")), - { OPTION_CALLBACK, 0, "index-version", NULL, N_("version[,offset]"), + { OPTION_CALLBACK, 0, "index-version", NULL, N_("<version>[,<offset>]"), N_("write the pack index file in the specified idx format version"), - 0, option_parse_index_version }, + PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP, option_parse_index_version }, OPT_MAGNITUDE(0, "max-pack-size", &pack_size_limit, N_("maximum size of each output pack file")), OPT_BOOL(0, "local", &local, -- 2.18.0