On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 01:43:56PM -0600, Alex Henrie wrote: > > So maybe something like: > > > > There are no human-readable parts of these strings; the command you > > type is still "git maintenance" even in other languages. > > By "placeholders" I mean "things in angle brackets", like some of the > other usage strings in this file have. Maybe "argument placeholders" > would be more clear. I like that term a little better than the term > "human-readable parts" because these strings are part of the user > interface, so humans have to read them. But I really don't care > whether there's any explanation in the commit message at all. Junio > could just drop the sentence altogether when he commits the patch. Yeah. It was mostly that the term actively misled me. ;) Just the subject (with "literal command") would probably be enough in this case. -Peff
