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From: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
To: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: correct command formatting
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 19:18:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <70decbc2-093c-9f9a-3661-ee6500cec641@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170928140648.GC9439@dinwoodie.org>

Am 28.09.2017 um 16:06 schrieb Adam Dinwoodie:
> Leaving spaces around the `-delimeters for commands means asciidoc fails
> to parse them as the start of a literal string.  Remove an extraneous
> space that is causing a literal to not be formatted as such.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/git.txt | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
> index 6e3a6767e..98b9b46b9 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git.txt
> @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ example the following invocations are equivalent:
>  Note that omitting the `=` in `git -c foo.bar ...` is allowed and sets
>  `foo.bar` to the boolean true value (just like `[foo]bar` would in a
>  config file). Including the equals but with an empty value (like `git -c
> -foo.bar= ...`) sets `foo.bar` to the empty string which ` git config
> +foo.bar= ...`) sets `foo.bar` to the empty string which `git config
>  --bool` will convert to `false`.
>  
>  --exec-path[=<path>]::
> 

+1, Thanks for spotting.

I did a quick

	grep -r " ` "

which came up with with another relevant place:

Documentation/git-format-patch.txt:	`--subject-prefix` option) has ` v<n>` appended to it.  E.g.

But here the space IS relevant but asciidoc does not pick up
the formatting. Perhaps that one could read like this:


	`--subject-prefix` option) has `<SPACE>v<n>` appended to it.  E.g.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-28 17:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-28 14:06 [PATCH] doc: correct command formatting Adam Dinwoodie
2017-09-28 17:18 ` Andreas Heiduk [this message]
2017-09-28 19:34   ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-09-28 22:28     ` Andreas Heiduk
2017-09-29  1:53     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-09-29  3:27       ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-09-29  4:07         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-09-28 19:03 ` Jonathan Nieder

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