Wrap the placeholders in the option help string for -w in pairs of angular brackets to document that users need to replace them with actual numbers. Use the flag PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP to prevent parseopt from adding another pair. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> --- builtin/shortlog.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/shortlog.c b/builtin/shortlog.c index 608d6ba77b..f555cf9e4f 100644 --- a/builtin/shortlog.c +++ b/builtin/shortlog.c @@ -268,8 +268,10 @@ int cmd_shortlog(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) N_("Suppress commit descriptions, only provides commit count")), OPT_BOOL('e', "email", &log.email, N_("Show the email address of each author")), - { OPTION_CALLBACK, 'w', NULL, &log, N_("w[,i1[,i2]]"), - N_("Linewrap output"), PARSE_OPT_OPTARG, &parse_wrap_args }, + { OPTION_CALLBACK, 'w', NULL, &log, N_("<w>[,<i1>[,<i2>]]"), + N_("Linewrap output"), + PARSE_OPT_OPTARG | PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP, + &parse_wrap_args }, OPT_END(), }; -- 2.18.0