On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 12:16:18PM +0200, Christian Couder wrote: > When displaying cat-file usage, the fact that a <format> can > be specified is only visible when lookling at the --batch and > --batch-check options which are shown like this: > > --batch[=<format>] show info and content of objects fed from the standard input > --batch-check[=<format>] > show info about objects fed from the standard input > > It seems more coherent and improves discovery to also show it > on the usage line. > > In the documentation the DESCRIPTION tells us that "The output > format can be overridden using the optional <format> argument", > but we can't see the <format> argument in the SYNOPSIS above > the description which is confusing. Thanks, this makes sense and the patch looks good to me (it does make the line very long, but the one above is much longer anyway). -Peff
