From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:02:56 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: CodingGuidelines: downcase placeholders in usage messages
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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>
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b1afe49dfbe9e91631bd011a47034fbf3ffd682e
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
index ba2006d892..fe1c1e5bc2 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
+++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
@@ -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>]