[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Improve --help switch output for pacman contrib and pacman scripts
Jason St. John
jstjohn at purdue.edu
Mon Nov 11 13:37:24 EST 2013
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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?
>
> A
>
>
Because double quotes is more grammatically correct.
Jason
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