On Tue, Jan 02, 2024 at 02:15:57PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Note that the 'clone' and 'fetch' versions for many of these options > > have different wording. For example, in Documentation/git-clone.txt we > > have: > > > > -j:: > > --jobs=<n>:: > > Number of parallel children to be used for all forms of fetching. > > > > Whereas the description in the original fetch-options.txt is more > > verbose. > > Yes, so it will be impossible to unify without changing the > resulting text. But unless one description is clearly better for > one subcommand while the other description is also clearly better > for the other subcommand, we should be able to pick a better one > that would serve both subcommands, and that way we would improve > description for one subcommand while keeping the other one the same, > right? Right. I meant to illustrate merely that this would probably involve some word-smithing instead of just pure cut-and-paste, so that it may not be worth the effort. Thanks, Taylor
