bug#9497: join: suggestion for manpage/help enhacement

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake wrote:
...
> How about the following patch, which adds "also", while maintaining line 
> length by deleting the fluff word "coming"?
>
> From 31046b6d38ab49cb815c8f6c6bc4faf6bb596de6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:07:11 -0600
> Subject: [PATCH] join: clarify -a behavior

Thank you both.

Please change the one-line summary to start with "doc: " e.g.,

    doc: improve description of join's -a option

so that a naive categorization lists it as a documentation change
rather than a join bug fix

I've marked this as done.

> * src/join.c (usage): Mention that -a adds to the overall output,
> rather than replacing the default output.
> Suggested by Tomas Volka.
> ---
>  src/join.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/join.c b/src/join.c
> index 694fb55..809eead 100644
> --- a/src/join.c
> +++ b/src/join.c
> @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ For each pair of input lines with identical join fields, 
> write a line to\n\
>  standard output.  The default join field is the first, delimited\n\
>  by whitespace.  When FILE1 or FILE2 (not both) is -, read standard input.\n\
>  \n\
> -  -a FILENUM        print unpairable lines coming from file FILENUM, where\n\
> +  -a FILENUM        also print unpairable lines from file FILENUM, where\n\
>                        FILENUM is 1 or 2, corresponding to FILE1 or FILE2\n\
>    -e EMPTY          replace missing input fields with EMPTY\n\
>  "), stdout);
> --
> 1.7.4.4