Hello List The second line of the help message for git commit looks like this: [--dry-run] [(-c | -C | --squash) <commit> | --fixup [(amend|reword):]<commit>)] See for example https://gitirc.eu/git-commit.html. It has two opening parens and three closing parens. <commit> ends with a closing paren before the closing bracket. Me and gsish (on IRC) suspect this is a misstake. What do you think? Please reply all, not suscribed to the list. Best regards -- Tomas