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>
14 years ago · b1afe49dfb
1 changed files with 1 additions and 1 deletions
--- 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>]