--indent and --format in the manage.py docs is misleading

[anonymous]

The way it's written now, it seems like the way to have your dump indented is to do this:

./manage.py dumpdata --indent 4 myapp ...

when in actuality it's

./manage.py dumpdata --indent=4 myapp ...

so the documentation is a little misleading in that regard. It threw me for a little loop

[Karen Tracey]

I don't understand. Per the discussion of "options argument" in the python doc for optparse (what Django's using here): ​http://docs.python.org/library/optparse.html#terminology '--indent 4" and "--indent=4" are equivalent ways of specifying the same thing. And indeed when I try those two variants I get identical files. So I don't see what needs to be fixed here. What happened instead when you tried the first variant?