From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:51:47 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: maint: fix cfg.mk comment
X-Git-Tag: v9.2~113
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4f43143ab17b3b7646b75838ebcc769854eb7906;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

maint: fix cfg.mk comment

* cfg.mk (sc_texi_long_option_escaped): Fix comment.
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diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index 992aabc86b..4040d6846a 100644
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -366,10 +366,7 @@ sc_option_desc_uppercase: $(ALL_MANS)
 	@grep '^\\fB\\-' -A1 man/*.1 | LC_ALL=C grep '\.1.[A-Z][a-z]'	\
 	  && { echo 1>&2 '$@: found initial capitals in --help'; exit 1; } || :
 
-# Option descriptions should not start with a capital letter.
-# One could grep source directly as follows:
-# grep -E " {2,6}-.*[^.]  [A-Z][a-z]" $$($(VC_LIST_EXCEPT) | grep '\.c$$')
-# but that would miss descriptions not on the same line as the -option.
+# '--' should not be treated as '–' (U+2013 EN DASH) in long option names.
 sc_texi_long_option_escaped: doc/coreutils.info
 	@grep ' –[^ ]' '$<'						\
 	  && { echo 1>&2 '$@: found unquoted --long-option'; exit 1; } || :