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From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
To: GitList <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: [PATCH] doc: 'git status' quote the zero (NUL) character
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 23:09:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1413929390-1624-1-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org> (raw)

Newer web rendering of 'git status --help --web' shows the zero in
"NUL (ASCII 0)" as if it is a small 'o' character. Back-tick quote the
zero to ensure it is displayed as a full size mono-spaced font. Also
display the "double quote (ASCII 34)" in the same manner.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
---
 Documentation/git-status.txt | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt
index 4d8d530..24390d6 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-status.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ status code.
 The fields (including the `->`) are separated from each other by a
 single space. If a filename contains whitespace or other nonprintable
 characters, that field will be quoted in the manner of a C string
-literal: surrounded by ASCII double quote (34) characters, and with
+literal: surrounded by double quote (ASCII `34`) characters, and with
 interior special characters backslash-escaped.
 
 For paths with merge conflicts, `X` and `Y` show the modification
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ There is also an alternate -z format recommended for machine parsing. In
 that format, the status field is the same, but some other things
 change.  First, the '\->' is omitted from rename entries and the field
 order is reversed (e.g 'from \-> to' becomes 'to from'). Second, a NUL
-(ASCII 0) follows each filename, replacing space as a field separator
+(ASCII `0`) follows each filename, replacing space as a field separator
 and the terminating newline (but a space still separates the status
 field from the first filename).  Third, filenames containing special
 characters are not specially formatted; no quoting or
-- 
1.9.4.msysgit.0

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