all: do not clash flag description with back-quoted flag types

See https://golang.org/pkg/flag/#PrintDefaults for more details.

app/victoria-metrics/self_scraper.go

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/storage"
 )
 
-var selfScrapeInterval = flag.Duration("selfScrapeInterval", 0, "Interval for self-scraping own metrics at `/metrics` page")
+var selfScrapeInterval = flag.Duration("selfScrapeInterval", 0, "Interval for self-scraping own metrics at /metrics page")
 
 var selfScraperStopCh chan struct{}
 var selfScraperWG sync.WaitGroup

app/vminsert/concurrencylimiter/concurrencylimiter.go

@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ import (
 )
 
 var (
-	maxConcurrentInserts = flag.Int("maxConcurrentInserts", runtime.GOMAXPROCS(-1)*4, "The maximum number of concurrent inserts; see also `-insert.maxQueueDuration`")
-	maxQueueDuration     = flag.Duration("insert.maxQueueDuration", time.Minute, "The maximum duration for waiting in the queue for insert requests due to `-maxConcurrentInserts`")
+	maxConcurrentInserts = flag.Int("maxConcurrentInserts", runtime.GOMAXPROCS(-1)*4, "The maximum number of concurrent inserts; see also -insert.maxQueueDuration")
+	maxQueueDuration     = flag.Duration("insert.maxQueueDuration", time.Minute, "The maximum duration for waiting in the queue for insert requests due to -maxConcurrentInserts")
 )
 
 // ch is the channel for limiting concurrent calls to Do.

app/vminsert/influx/request_handler.go

@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ import (
 )
 
 var (
-	measurementFieldSeparator = flag.String("influxMeasurementFieldSeparator", "_", "Separator for `{measurement}{separator}{field_name}` metric name when inserted via Influx line protocol")
-	skipSingleField           = flag.Bool("influxSkipSingleField", false, "Uses `{measurement}` instead of `{measurement}{separator}{field_name}` for metic name if Influx line contains only a single field")
+	measurementFieldSeparator = flag.String("influxMeasurementFieldSeparator", "_", "Separator for '{measurement}{separator}{field_name}' metric name when inserted via Influx line protocol")
+	skipSingleField           = flag.Bool("influxSkipSingleField", false, "Uses '{measurement}' instead of '{measurement}{separator}{field_name}' for metic name if Influx line contains only a single field")
 )
 
 var (

app/vminsert/vmimport/request_handler.go

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics"
 )
 
-var maxLineLen = flag.Int("import.maxLineLen", 100*1024*1024, "The maximum length in bytes of a single line accepted by `/api/v1/import`")
+var maxLineLen = flag.Int("import.maxLineLen", 100*1024*1024, "The maximum length in bytes of a single line accepted by /api/v1/import")
 
 var (
 	rowsInserted  = metrics.NewCounter(`vm_rows_inserted_total{type="vmimport"}`)

app/vmrestore/main.go

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ var (
 		"VictoriaMetrics must be stopped when restoring from backup. -storageDataPath dir can be non-empty. In this case only missing data is downloaded from backup")
 	concurrency             = flag.Int("concurrency", 10, "The number of concurrent workers. Higher concurrency may reduce restore duration")
 	maxBytesPerSecond       = flag.Int("maxBytesPerSecond", 0, "The maximum download speed. There is no limit if it is set to 0")
-	skipBackupCompleteCheck = flag.Bool("skipBackupCompleteCheck", false, "Whether to skip checking for `backup complete` file in `-src`. This may be useful for restoring from old backups, which were created without `backup complete` file")
+	skipBackupCompleteCheck = flag.Bool("skipBackupCompleteCheck", false, "Whether to skip checking for 'backup complete' file in -src. This may be useful for restoring from old backups, which were created without 'backup complete' file")
 )
 
 func main() {

app/vmselect/main.go

@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ import (
 var (
 	deleteAuthKey         = flag.String("deleteAuthKey", "", "authKey for metrics' deletion via /api/v1/admin/tsdb/delete_series")
 	maxConcurrentRequests = flag.Int("search.maxConcurrentRequests", getDefaultMaxConcurrentRequests(), "The maximum number of concurrent search requests. "+
-		"It shouldn't be high, since a single request can saturate all the CPU cores. See also `-search.maxQueueDuration`")
-	maxQueueDuration = flag.Duration("search.maxQueueDuration", 10*time.Second, "The maximum time the request waits for execution when `-search.maxConcurrentRequests` limit is reached")
+		"It shouldn't be high, since a single request can saturate all the CPU cores. See also -search.maxQueueDuration")
+	maxQueueDuration = flag.Duration("search.maxQueueDuration", 10*time.Second, "The maximum time the request waits for execution when -search.maxConcurrentRequests limit is reached")
 )
 
 func getDefaultMaxConcurrentRequests() int {

app/vmselect/prometheus/prometheus.go

@@ -24,11 +24,11 @@ import (
 var (
 	latencyOffset = flag.Duration("search.latencyOffset", time.Second*30, "The time when data points become visible in query results after the colection. "+
 		"Too small value can result in incomplete last points for query results")
-	maxExportDuration = flag.Duration("search.maxExportDuration", time.Hour*24*30, "The maximum duration for `/api/v1/export` call")
+	maxExportDuration = flag.Duration("search.maxExportDuration", time.Hour*24*30, "The maximum duration for /api/v1/export call")
 	maxQueryDuration  = flag.Duration("search.maxQueryDuration", time.Second*30, "The maximum duration for search query execution")
 	maxQueryLen       = flag.Int("search.maxQueryLen", 16*1024, "The maximum search query length in bytes")
-	maxLookback       = flag.Duration("search.maxLookback", 0, "Synonim to `-search.lookback-delta` from Prometheus. "+
-		"The value is dynamically detected from interval between time series datapoints if not set. It can be overridden on per-query basis via `max_lookback` arg")
+	maxLookback       = flag.Duration("search.maxLookback", 0, "Synonim to -search.lookback-delta from Prometheus. "+
+		"The value is dynamically detected from interval between time series datapoints if not set. It can be overridden on per-query basis via max_lookback arg")
 )
 
 // Default step used if not set.

lib/backup/actions/restore.go

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ func (r *Restore) Run() error {
 		}
 		if !ok {
 			return fmt.Errorf("cannot find %s file in %s; this means either incomplete backup or old backup; "+
-				"pass `-skipBackupCompleteCheck` command-line flag if you still need restoring from this backup", fscommon.BackupCompleteFilename, src)
+				"pass -skipBackupCompleteCheck command-line flag if you still need restoring from this backup", fscommon.BackupCompleteFilename, src)
 		}
 	}
 

lib/fs/reader_at.go

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import (
 	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
 )
 
-var disableMmap = flag.Bool("fs.disableMmap", false, "Whether to use `pread` instead of `mmap` for reading data files")
+var disableMmap = flag.Bool("fs.disableMmap", false, "Whether to use pread() instead of mmap() for reading data files")
 
 // MustReadAtCloser is rand-access read interface.
 type MustReadAtCloser interface {

lib/httpserver/httpserver.go

@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ import (
 )
 
 var (
-	tlsEnable   = flag.Bool("tls", false, "Whether to enable TLS (aka HTTPS) for incoming requests. `-tlsCertFile` and `-tlsKeyFile` must be set if `-tls` is set")
-	tlsCertFile = flag.String("tlsCertFile", "", "Path to file with TLS certificate. Used only if `-tls` is set. Prefer ECDSA certs instead of RSA certs, since RSA certs are slow")
-	tlsKeyFile  = flag.String("tlsKeyFile", "", "Path to file with TLS key. Used only if `-tls` is set")
+	tlsEnable   = flag.Bool("tls", false, "Whether to enable TLS (aka HTTPS) for incoming requests. -tlsCertFile and -tlsKeyFile must be set if -tls is set")
+	tlsCertFile = flag.String("tlsCertFile", "", "Path to file with TLS certificate. Used only if -tls is set. Prefer ECDSA certs instead of RSA certs, since RSA certs are slow")
+	tlsKeyFile  = flag.String("tlsKeyFile", "", "Path to file with TLS key. Used only if -tls is set")
 
 	httpAuthUsername = flag.String("httpAuth.username", "", "Username for HTTP Basic Auth. The authentication is disabled if empty. See also -httpAuth.password")
 	httpAuthPassword = flag.String("httpAuth.password", "", "Password for HTTP Basic Auth. The authentication is disabled if -httpAuth.username is empty")

lib/storage/dedup.go

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import (
 
 var minScrapeInterval = flag.Duration("dedup.minScrapeInterval", 0, "Remove superflouos samples from time series if they are located closer to each other than this duration. "+
 	"This may be useful for reducing overhead when multiple identically configured Prometheus instances write data to the same VictoriaMetrics. "+
-	"Deduplication is disabled if the `-dedup.minScrapeInterval` is 0")
+	"Deduplication is disabled if the -dedup.minScrapeInterval is 0")
 
 func getMinDelta() int64 {
 	// Divide minScrapeInterval by 2 in order to preserve proper data points.