Tomas Nordin <tomasn@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hello List > > The second line of the help message for git commit looks like this: This seems to have come from 00ea64ed (doc/git-commit: add documentation for fixup=[amend|reword] options, 2021-03-15), if "git blame" is to be trusted. > [--dry-run] [(-c | -C | --squash) <commit> | --fixup [(amend|reword):]<commit>)] We can have --dry-run but we do not have to, we can have only one of "-c <commit>" "-C <commit>", "--squash <commit>", "--fixup amend:<commit>" "--fixup reword:<commit>", or "--fixup <commit>" as they are mutually exclusive, but it is OK if we have none of them. The last closing parenthesis after <commit> but before the closing square bracket is unwanted, I think, as you pointed out.