[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Improve --help switch output for pacman contrib and pacman scripts

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sun Nov 10 08:24:21 EST 2013


On 08/11/13 17:53, Jason St. John wrote:
> Unify the formatting of the --help switch for pacman utils, if it exists.
> All of the pacman utils will now output help text using the following
> format:
> 
>   util-name (pacman) v<pacman version>
> 
>   one line description of util's purpose
> 
>   Usage: util-name [options]
> 
>     -b, --bar      whatever --bar does
>     -f, --foo      whatever --foo does
>     -h, --help     display this help message
> 
> Reported-by: Karol Błażewicz <karol.blazewicz at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn at purdue.edu>
> ---
> This patch is analogous to commit a86015f except this one deals with pacman
> contrib and pacman scripts instead of pacman utils.
> 
> Note:
> This is a resubmit based on Andrew's feedback on the ML here:
> https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2013-October/018142.html
> 

<snip>

> -    -m, --move <dir>      move candidate packages to 'movedir'.
> +    -m, --move <dir>      move candidate packages to "movedir".

Why switch to double quotes here?

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