Improve initial-merge docs

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/pyfedpkg/initial_merge.py b/src/pyfedpkg/initial_merge.py
index 759518a..458ef46 100755
--- a/src/pyfedpkg/initial_merge.py
+++ b/src/pyfedpkg/initial_merge.py
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 # initial_merge.py - perform initial merge after dist-git migration
 
 """\
-"fedpkg initial-merge" performs a merge of all git branches with the same
-content in the directory tree, i.e. with the same package spec files,
-patches, etc.
+Performs a 'git merge' of all git branches with the same content
+(i.e. with the same package spec files, patch files, etc.), regardless
+of their history.
 
 This is useful after Fedora's dist-cvs to dist-git migration, as often
 different branches have different histories but the same content on the
@@ -195,10 +195,12 @@ def fedpkg_command(args):
 
 _module_doc = __doc__
 
+
 def get_parser(subparsers):
     sp = subparsers.add_parser('initial-merge',
                                help = 'git merge to join branches with identical trees',
-                               epilog = _module_doc)
+                               formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter,
+                               description = _module_doc)
     sp.add_argument('-n', '--dry-run',
                     dest='dry_run',
                     action='store_const', const=True,