CodingGuidelines: downcase placeholders in usage messages

We accumulated some inconsistencies without an explicit guidance to spell
this out over time.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit is contained in:
Junio C Hamano 2011-02-15 11:02:56 -08:00
parent 24231e063f
commit b1afe49dfb

View File

@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ Writing Documentation:
when writing or modifying command usage strings and synopsis sections
in the manual pages:
Placeholders are enclosed in angle brackets:
Placeholders are spelled in lowercase and enclosed in angle brackets:
<file>
--sort=<key>
--abbrev[=<n>]