[PATCH] rebase: clarify --source and --base documentation so it's less ambiguous

Martin Geisler martin at geisler.net
Thu Oct 9 02:47:49 CDT 2014


Mads Kiilerich <mads at kiilerich.com> writes:

> My gut feeling was that the brief description had to be less than 80
> characters ... but in this case we have good use for extra characters.

The help texts for command line flags are wrapped as necessary so you
can go wild here and include as much text as you need :-)

Keeping the explanation brief and to the point still make sense, but
From a help-layout-engine point of view, we can handle long strings.

-- 
Martin Geisler

http://google.com/+MartinGeisler
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