which comes from having N_("refname>:<expect") as the argument help
text in the source code, with an aparent lack of "<" and ">" at both
ends.
It turns out that parse-options machinery takes the whole string and
encloses it inside a pair of "<>", to make it easier for majority
cases that uses a single token placeholder.
The help string was written in a funnily unbalanced way knowing that
the end result would balance out, by somebody who forgot the
presence of PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP, which is the escape hatch
mechanism designed to help such a case. We just should use the
official escape hatch instead.
Because ":<expect>" part can be omitted to ask Git to guess, it may
be more correct to spell it as "<refname>[:<expect>]", but that is
not the focus of this topic.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Helped-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>