Wrap each part of the argument help string in angular brackets to show that users need to replace them with actual values. Do that explicitly to balance the pairs nicely in the code and avoid confusing casual readers. Add the flag PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP to keep parseopt from adding another pair. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> --- builtin/send-pack.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/send-pack.c b/builtin/send-pack.c index 42fd8d1a35..0b517c9368 100644 --- a/builtin/send-pack.c +++ b/builtin/send-pack.c @@ -178,9 +178,10 @@ int cmd_send_pack(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) OPT_BOOL(0, "stdin", &from_stdin, N_("read refs from stdin")), OPT_BOOL(0, "helper-status", &helper_status, N_("print status from remote helper")), { OPTION_CALLBACK, - 0, CAS_OPT_NAME, &cas, N_("refname>:<expect"), + 0, CAS_OPT_NAME, &cas, N_("<refname>:<expect>"), N_("require old value of ref to be at this value"), - PARSE_OPT_OPTARG, parseopt_push_cas_option }, + PARSE_OPT_OPTARG | PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP, + parseopt_push_cas_option }, OPT_END() }; -- 2.18.0