Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 12:33:21PM +0000, Tomas Nordin wrote: > >> 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? > > Yep, looks like a typo introduced by 00ea64ed7a (doc/git-commit: add > documentation for fixup=[amend|reword] options, 2021-03-15). I stumbled upon it while working on a synopsis parsing tool, similar to the Python docopt if familiar. > Want to try your hand at producing a patch? (It's OK if the answer is > no; it just seems like a good opportunity for somebody to get their feet > wet on contributing). I can try, why not? Should I hang it up on this thread so to say. Is this a bug report?
