commit: avoid race when creating orphan commits

diff --git a/builtin/merge-index.c b/builtin/merge-index.c
index b416d928492c43e78dc7ac0b3bd1d7a99abfe78b..1a1eafa6fdc2e9dc66c98d3a81b7ee50e44727da 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/merge-index.c
+++ b/builtin/merge-index.c
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ int cmd_merge_index(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
        signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_DFL);
 
        if (argc < 3)
-               usage("git merge-index [-o] [-q] <merge-program> (-a | [--] <filename>*)");
+               usage("git merge-index [-o] [-q] <merge-program> (-a | [--] [<filename>...])");
 
        read_cache();