On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 09:09:25PM +0100, Dragan Simic wrote: > On 2024-02-29 21:02, Rubén Justo wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 11:33:24AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > > > Do not forget that the objective of the larger-picture-revamping of > > > this page is to make the description of each option self-contained. > > > Similarity between -m's description and -c's description does not > > > count as being uselessly repetitive. > > > > OK. I was not considering this. > > I'd also like to avoid repetition, but if we want to have self-contained > command descriptions (which is good), some repetition is unavoidable. I don't see much of a problem with repetitions. Within the self-containmnent aspect it makes a lot of sense. And, after all, my messages have been mainly about repeating ... placeholders. > In fact, we can see what avoiding the repetition has lead us to in the > current state of the git-branch(1) man page. Indeed. I agree that the lack of repetition has brought us here. But I think we're not 100% aligned in what repetition is :-), yet. We're working on it! Thanks.
