From b1afe49dfbe9e91631bd011a47034fbf3ffd682e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:02:56 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] 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>
---
 Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
index ba2006d89..fe1c1e5bc 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>]
-- 
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