Improve the help message for commands

[stgit] / stgit / commands / applied.py

diff --git a/stgit/commands/applied.py b/stgit/commands/applied.py
index 94b26c6f2a2aa781af6b38ff55514c0b604d5421..8a2a2320e8767333f3881e1b568922b25b50e6bf 100644 (file)
--- a/stgit/commands/applied.py
+++ b/stgit/commands/applied.py
@@ -25,7 +25,11 @@ from stgit import stack, git
 
 
 help = 'print the applied patches'
-usage = '%prog'
+usage = """%prog [options]
+
+List the patches from the series which were already pushed onto the
+stack.  They are listed in the order in which they were pushed, the
+last one being the current (topmost) patch."""
 
 options = []