[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/8] patman: Minor help message/README fixes

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Thu Mar 21 03:42:56 CET 2013


A few of the help messages are not quite right, and there is a typo
in the README. Fix these.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---
 tools/patman/README    | 2 +-
 tools/patman/patman.py | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/patman/README b/tools/patman/README
index 86d366f..c0657bc 100644
--- a/tools/patman/README
+++ b/tools/patman/README
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ will get a consistent result each time.
 How to configure it
 ===================
 
-For most cases of using patman for U-Boot developement patman will
+For most cases of using patman for U-Boot development, patman will
 locate and use the file 'doc/git-mailrc' in your U-Boot directory.
 This contains most of the aliases you will need.
 
diff --git a/tools/patman/patman.py b/tools/patman/patman.py
index 377408d..5000b7d 100755
--- a/tools/patman/patman.py
+++ b/tools/patman/patman.py
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ parser.add_option('-i', '--ignore-errors', action='store_true',
        dest='ignore_errors', default=False,
        help='Send patches email even if patch errors are found')
 parser.add_option('-n', '--dry-run', action='store_true', dest='dry_run',
-       default=False, help="Do a try run (create but don't email patches)")
+       default=False, help="Do a dry run (create but don't email patches)")
 parser.add_option('-p', '--project', default=project.DetectProject(),
                   help="Project name; affects default option values and "
                   "aliases [default: %default]")
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ parser.add_option('--no-tags', action='store_false', dest='process_tags',
 parser.usage = """patman [options]
 
 Create patches from commits in a branch, check them and email them as
-specified by tags you place in the commits. Use -n to """
+specified by tags you place in the commits. Use -n to do a dry run first."""
 
 
 # Parse options twice: first to get the project and second to handle
-- 
1.8.1.3



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