Subject: Re: bug#10253: mention +FORMAT in ls time style reminder help blurb

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:22:24 +0100

[email-masked] wrote:
> $ ls -t1 --time-style=%c -og
> ls: invalid argument `%c' for `time style'
> Valid arguments are:
>   - `full-iso'
>   - `long-iso'
>   - `iso'
>   - `locale'     <-------------you forgot to also mention "+FORMAT"
> Try `ls --help' for more information.
> $ ls -t1 --time-style=+%c -og

Thanks for the report.
However, that doesn't lend itself well to a clean fix, since +FORMAT
is not a literal string option argument like the others, and currently
that diagnostic is generated automatically based on the list of literal strings.

I'm inclined to leave it as-is.

Any other opinions?