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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix 'Cloning into' message
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:39:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vvcraz64i.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1319734013-8956-1-git-send-email-richih.mailinglist@gmail.com> (Richard Hartmann's message of "Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:46:53 +0200")

Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com> writes:

> Without this patch,
>
>     git clone foo .
>
> results in this:
>
>     Cloning into ....
>     done.
>
> With it:
>
>     Cloning into '.'...
>     done.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>

We try to be consistent and many places do quote user supplied paths in
pair of single quotes in human readable messages, and this is in line with
that pattern.

    $ git clone foo "joey's foo"

would result in

    Cloning into 'joey's foo'...

but that is probably Ok ;-)

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-27 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-26 17:05 [PATCH] Fix 'Cloning into' message Richard Hartmann
2011-10-27 16:46 ` Richard Hartmann
2011-10-27 17:39   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2011-10-27 18:34     ` Richard Hartmann

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