Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. So then I make an attempt to provide a patch to remove that closing parenthesis. Please tell if it should be done differently somehow. The patch was done on top of maint.