From: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 04:03:46 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: man: improve wording of systemctl's --after/--before
X-Git-Tag: v212~133
X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=9029f64298cb70c12ecf638fddee7f41b056fcf1;hp=3f573096641cf3d350c8779971c644ca74aab93a

man: improve wording of systemctl's --after/--before

Commit 4a77ca7 was an attempt at fixing the wording of --after and --before,
but the new wording was unclear.

Split the combined --after/--before section into a separate section for
each, explicitly state what each option does, and add information about
how these lists are generated.

Reported-by: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
---

diff --git a/man/systemctl.xml b/man/systemctl.xml
index cd27c4a8e..77447dd12 100644
--- a/man/systemctl.xml
+++ b/man/systemctl.xml
@@ -157,12 +157,27 @@ along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
       <varlistentry>
         <term><option>--after</option></term>
+
+        <listitem>
+          <para>With <command>list-dependencies</command>, show the
+          units that are ordered before the specified unit. In other
+          words, list the units that are in the <varname>After=</varname>
+          directive of the specified unit, have the specified unit in
+          their <varname>Before=</varname> directive, or are otherwise
+          implicit dependencies of the specified unit.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
         <term><option>--before</option></term>
 
         <listitem>
-          <para>Show after (before) which units the specified unit is started
-          with <command>list-dependencies</command>.
-          </para>
+          <para>With <command>list-dependencies</command>, show the
+          units that are ordered after the specified unit. In other
+          words, list the units that are in the <varname>Before=</varname>
+          directive of the specified unit, have the specified unit in
+          their <varname>After=</varname> directive, or otherwise depend
+          on the specified unit.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>