Improve the help message for commands

[stgit] / stgit / commands / add.py

diff --git a/stgit/commands/add.py b/stgit/commands/add.py
index 7bad07cc507f5e30a03ca4d90db32466434c9443..999ce2b79fcb516e40531e62324d2bae42cdf08e 100644 (file)
--- a/stgit/commands/add.py
+++ b/stgit/commands/add.py
@@ -25,7 +25,11 @@ from stgit import stack, git
 
 
 help = 'add files or directories to the repository'
-usage = """%prog <files/dirs...>"""
+usage = """%prog [options] <files/dirs...>
+
+Add a the files or directories passed as arguments to the
+repository. When a directory name is given, all the files and
+subdirectories are recursively added."""
 
 options = []