From: Ruediger Meier <ruediger.meier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
We change
-h, --help display this help and exit
-V, --version output version information and exit
to
-h, --help display this help
-V, --version print version
Some thoughts about this:
* use "display" for --help because it matches better if we
would add pager support (like git --help)
* "print" for --version to be different
* "this" for --help is important to make clear that running
--help would not give you any better information than the
one you see already
* remove "information and exit" because it's bloat for the
short-help, everybody knows what it does if it exists
In the manpages we should use the old, longer but more correct
descriptions, inclusive a reminder if --help/--version are only
working when used as the only option. Note the term "version
information" indicates that we don't only print a single version
number.
CC: J William Piggott <elseifthen@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ruediger Meier <ruediger.meier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/c.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/c.h b/include/c.h
index ce5551535..be7e6fd53 100644
--- a/include/c.h
+++ b/include/c.h
@@ -316,8 +316,8 @@ static inline int xusleep(useconds_t usec)
#define USAGE_COLUMNS _("\nAvailable output columns:\n")
#define USAGE_SEPARATOR "\n"
-#define USAGE_HELP_TXT _("display this help and exit")
-#define USAGE_VERSION_TXT _("output version information and exit")
+#define USAGE_HELP_TXT _("display this help")
+#define USAGE_VERSION_TXT _("print version")
#define PRINT_USAGE_HELP(marg_dsc) \
printf( \
--
2.12.3
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