usage: do not insist that standard input must come from a file

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / git-stripspace.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-stripspace.txt b/Documentation/git-stripspace.txt
index 60328d5d08d43d31dd80e14b07fe75257a1f4446..2438f76da05ebf013103a08962d634c4baa9ea15 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-stripspace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-stripspace.txt
@@ -9,14 +9,15 @@ git-stripspace - Remove unnecessary whitespace
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git stripspace' [-s | --strip-comments] < input
-'git stripspace' [-c | --comment-lines] < input
+'git stripspace' [-s | --strip-comments]
+'git stripspace' [-c | --comment-lines]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 
-Clean the input in the manner used by Git for text such as commit
-messages, notes, tags and branch descriptions.
+Read text, such as commit messages, notes, tags and branch
+descriptions, from the standard input and clean it in the manner
+used by Git.
 
 With no arguments, this will: