From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix typos, grammar, asciidoc syntax Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:08:51 -0800 Message-ID: <7v3agiy5gs.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <200812191314.19302.markus.heidelberg@web.de> <7v3agj1gvp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <200812201418.38707.markus.heidelberg@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: markus.heidelberg@web.de X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Dec 20 21:10:43 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LE89n-0001hc-G2 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:10:39 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753222AbYLTUI6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:08:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753198AbYLTUI6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:08:58 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:50363 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753181AbYLTUI5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:08:57 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAFC38736C; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:08:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0B2A18736B; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:08:53 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 084ED67A-CED2-11DD-9FAE-5720C92D7133-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Markus Heidelberg writes: > Junio C Hamano, 20.12.2008: >> Markus Heidelberg 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...