CodingGuidelines: downcase placeholders in usage messages

gitster · gitster · commit b1afe49dfbe9 · 2011-02-15T11:53:00.000-08:00
We accumulated some inconsistencies without an explicit guidance to spell
this out over time.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
diff --git 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>]
