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* clean the manual of unnecessary quote marks
@ 2008-11-28  2:09 jidanni
  2008-11-28  6:25 ` Sverre Rabbelier
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: jidanni @ 2008-11-28  2:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: git

Gentlemen, sorry to be a bore, but in
/usr/share/doc/git-doc/gitcore-tutorial.html
there are examples like
$ git-cat-file "blob" 557db03
which makes it look like the author is an expert in other things, but
not the shell, where
$ git-cat-file blob 557db03
would be fine. Do you really type those extra quotes when nobody else
is looking? Same even with
$ echo "Silly example" >example
Let's see, Of
$ echo Silly example >example
$ echo Silly example>example
$ echo Silly example > example
I'd pick the latter...

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* Re: clean the manual of unnecessary quote marks
  2008-11-28  2:09 clean the manual of unnecessary quote marks jidanni
@ 2008-11-28  6:25 ` Sverre Rabbelier
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Sverre Rabbelier @ 2008-11-28  6:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: jidanni; +Cc: git

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 03:09,  <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:
> $ git-cat-file "blob" 557db03
> which makes it look like the author is an expert in other things, but
> not the shell, where
> $ git-cat-file blob 557db03
> would be fine.

This I will agree with you, quoting blob is silly in this case...

>Do you really type those extra quotes when nobody else
> is looking? Same even with
> $ echo "Silly example" >example
> Let's see, Of
> $ echo Silly example >example
> $ echo Silly example>example
> $ echo Silly example > example
> I'd pick the latter...

But I don't agree here, with echo I do always write the extra quotes
when nobody is looking, I find your alternatives less clear than the
original (with the quotes).

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

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