From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
To: "Wesley J. Landaker" <wjl@icecavern.net>
Cc: "Štěpán Němec" <stepan.nemec@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix typos in git-remote.txt and git-symbolic-ref.txt
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:40:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200908121540.09784.trast@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908111826.12338.wjl@icecavern.net>
Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 August 2009 01:09:32 Thomas Rast wrote:
> > instances of `--
[...]
> Obviously we want consistency, but--as this sentence shows--there is a
> difference between an em-dash and a command-line option like --version.
Note the backtick. This is solely about `--options` vs. `\--options`,
and I highly doubt anyone would want their em-dashes to be typeset in
fixed-width font (that's what the backticks do).
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-12 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-11 0:52 [PATCH] Fix typos in git-remote.txt and git-symbolic-ref.txt Štěpán Němec
2009-08-11 5:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-11 7:09 ` Thomas Rast
2009-08-12 0:26 ` Wesley J. Landaker
2009-08-12 13:40 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
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