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From: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] docs/pretty-formats: stress that %- removes all preceding line-feeds
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 12:36:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170615103607.11119-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com> (raw)

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
---

A mere plural "line-feeds" was too subtle for me to grasp on first
(and second...) reading.

 Documentation/pretty-formats.txt | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
index 38040e95b..a48d267e2 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
@@ -213,8 +213,8 @@ If you add a `+` (plus sign) after '%' of a placeholder, a line-feed
 is inserted immediately before the expansion if and only if the
 placeholder expands to a non-empty string.
 
-If you add a `-` (minus sign) after '%' of a placeholder, line-feeds that
-immediately precede the expansion are deleted if and only if the
+If you add a `-` (minus sign) after '%' of a placeholder, all consecutive
+line-feeds immediately preceding the expansion are deleted if and only if the
 placeholder expands to an empty string.
 
 If you add a ` ` (space) after '%' of a placeholder, a space
-- 
2.13.1.505.g7cc9fcafb


             reply	other threads:[~2017-06-15 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-15 10:36 SZEDER Gábor [this message]
2017-06-16 18:30 ` [PATCH] docs/pretty-formats: stress that %- removes all preceding line-feeds Jonathan Nieder

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