From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Wesley J. Landaker" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix typos in git-remote.txt and git-symbolic-ref.txt Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:26:10 -0600 Organization: icecavern.net Message-ID: <200908111826.12338.wjl@icecavern.net> References: <20090811005207.GE24183@headley> <200908110909.33904.trast@student.ethz.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: =?utf-8?q?=C5=A0t=C4=9Bp=C3=A1n_N=C4=9Bmec?= , git@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Rast X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 12 02:26:34 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mb1fl-0001pa-Ds for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:26:33 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753599AbZHLA0U (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:26:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754091AbZHLA0U (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:26:20 -0400 Received: from rinoa.icecavern.net ([92.243.7.152]:52688 "EHLO icecavern.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753360AbZHLA0T (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:26:19 -0400 Received: from chocobo.localnet (c-76-113-110-228.hsd1.nm.comcast.net [76.113.110.228]) by icecavern.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6D96335A2B; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:26:16 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: KMail/1.11.2 (Linux/2.6.28-15-generic; KDE/4.2.2; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: <200908110909.33904.trast@student.ethz.ch> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tuesday 11 August 2009 01:09:32 Thomas Rast wrote: > So until we know for certain that they're not needed, I'd rather not > actively remove them. Admittedly, there are lots of instances of `-- > in the docs too, so making sure which way is "right" and then > replacing _all_ of them would probably be a nice cleanup. I'm not fully sure of the current situation, but if it, for instance, turns out that "--" gives an em-dash and "\--" gives two hyphens in a row, we'd only want to change the "--"'s to "\--" for things like command-line options, where an em-dash is totally inappropriate. If it's a sentence that is actually using an em-dash for another purpose, it is probably intentional and desirable to actually get an em-dash. Obviously we want consistency, but--as this sentence shows--there is a difference between an em-dash and a command-line option like --version.