[pacman-dev] [PATCH 1/4] pacman(8): Improve grammar and quoting

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Fri Aug 8 23:54:56 EDT 2014


On 07/08/14 14:43, Jason St. John wrote:
> Notable changes:
> * Add double quotes around printf-like formatting options for "--print-format"
> * Add a missing backslash in '--force'
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn at purdue.edu>
> ---
>  doc/pacman.8.txt | 12 ++++++------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/pacman.8.txt b/doc/pacman.8.txt
> index ccc0a01..28a12cf 100644
> --- a/doc/pacman.8.txt
> +++ b/doc/pacman.8.txt
> @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ Options
>  	Specify an alternative database location (a typical default is
>  	+{localstatedir}/lib/pacman+). This should not be used unless you know what
>  	you are doing.
> -	*NOTE*: if specified, this is an absolute path, and the root path is
> +	*NOTE*: If specified, this is an absolute path, and the root path is
>  	not automatically prepended.
>  
>  *-r, \--root* <path>::
> @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ Options
>  	Bypass any and all ``Are you sure?'' messages. It's not a good idea to do
>  	this unless you want to run pacman from a script.
>  
> -Transaction Options (apply to '-S', '-R' and '-U')
> +Transaction Options (apply to '-S', '-R', and '-U')
>  --------------------------------------------------

I don't like the comma here.  It is only three items and the last two
are not going to be confused as a single item.

Made that change and applied.

Allan


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