netdev - Re: ip help text should fit on 80 columns

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Message-ID: <20210330012034.GA272537@zira.vinc17.org>
Date:   Tue, 30 Mar 2021 03:20:34 +0200
From:   Vincent Lefevre <vincent@...c17.net>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ip help text should fit on 80 columns

On 2021-03-29 15:13:38 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 19:24:05 +0200
> Vincent Lefevre <vincent@...c17.net> wrote:
> 
> > Help text such as output by "ip help" or "ip link help" should fit
> > on 80 columns. It currently seems to take up to 86 columns.
> > 
> > Tested version:
> > 
> > zira:~> ip -V  
> > ip utility, iproute2-5.9.0, libbpf 0.3.0
> > 
> > but that's the iproute2 5.10.0-4 Debian package.
> 
> Have you looked at latest iproute2 in git?

OK, I see that there have been changes in the one from git.kernel.org,
but not in the one from github (which I was looking at until now).

I'm not sure whether the difference between these repositories is
expected, but https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/networking/iproute2
suggests either, without saying anything else.

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