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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: markus.heidelberg@web.de
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix typos, grammar, asciidoc syntax
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:08:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v3agiy5gs.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200812201418.38707.markus.heidelberg@web.de

Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> writes:

> Junio C Hamano, 20.12.2008:
>> Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> writes:
>> 
>> > @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ only the primary branches.  In addition, if you happen to be on
>> >  your topic branch, it is shown as well.
>> >  
>> >  ------------
>> > -$ git show-branch --reflog='10,1 hour ago' --list master
>> > +$ git show-branch --reflog="10,1 hour ago" --list master
>> >  ------------
>> 
>> Is this just a personal taste, or a correction to typography?
>
> When using single quotes, the manpage displayed backticks.

It does not seem to do that to me:

    $ git help show-branch | grep 10,1 | od -bc
    0000000 040 040 040 040 040 040 040 040 040 040 044 040 147 151 164 040
                                                      $       g   i   t
    0000020 163 150 157 167 055 142 162 141 156 143 150 040 055 055 162 145
              s   h   o   w   -   b   r   a   n   c   h       -   -   r   e
    0000040 146 154 157 147 075 342 200 231 061 060 054 061 040 150 157 165
              f   l   o   g   = 342 200 231   1   0   ,   1       h   o   u
    0000060 162 040 141 147 157 342 200 231 040 055 055 154 151 163 164 040
              r       a   g   o 342 200 231       -   -   l   i   s   t
    0000100 155 141 163 164 145 162 012
              m   a   s   t   e   r  \n

It does not use ASCII single quote ' (\047) but the result still does
render well enough to keep anybody who are typing, following the printed
examples, from mistaking it from a backquote:

    http://pics.livejournal.com/gitster/pic/00009pk0/g6

But in this particular case, because sq/dq does not make any difference to
the example, I am Ok to change it to dq.  But I suspect there are many
other places that do need to use sq in examples, so...

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-20 20:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-19 12:14 [PATCH] Documentation: fix typos, grammar, asciidoc syntax Markus Heidelberg
2008-12-20  6:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-20 13:18   ` Markus Heidelberg
2008-12-20 20:08     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-12-20 20:39       ` Teemu Likonen
2008-12-20 21:02         ` Markus Heidelberg
2008-12-20 21:18         ` Teemu Likonen
2008-12-20 21:13       ` Markus Heidelberg
2008-12-20 21:37         ` Teemu Likonen

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