On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 09:58:05AM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > Share the usage message between these three variables by using a > macro. Before this new options needed to copy/paste the usage > information, see e.g. 809e0327f5 (builtin/commit-graph.c: introduce > '--max-new-filters=<n>', 2020-09-18). > > See b25b727494f (builtin/multi-pack-index.c: define common usage with > a macro, 2021-03-30) for another use of this pattern (but on-list this > one came first). I don't have a strong opinion, but I believe Jonathan Tan suggested that we move the #define's out-of-line with their variable declarations back in [1]. I think that what you wrote here is fine, but I tend to agree with Jonathan that the version we ended up with in the tree is cleaner and a little easier to read (albeit a few more lines). [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20210302040625.4035284-1-jonathantanmy@xxxxxxxxxx/ Thanks, Taylor