* [PATCH] config.txt: fix a typo (backslash != backquote)
@ 2020-12-01 12:10 Štěpán Němec
2020-12-01 19:29 ` Martin Ågren
2020-12-01 21:31 ` Junio C Hamano
0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Štěpán Němec @ 2020-12-01 12:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/config.txt | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index bf706b950e..9700f6ebf9 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ The variable names are case-insensitive, allow only alphanumeric characters
and `-`, and must start with an alphabetic character.
A line that defines a value can be continued to the next line by
-ending it with a `\`; the backquote and the end-of-line are
+ending it with a `\`; the backslash and the end-of-line are
stripped. Leading whitespaces after 'name =', the remainder of the
line after the first comment character '#' or ';', and trailing
whitespaces of the line are discarded unless they are enclosed in
--
2.29.2
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* Re: [PATCH] config.txt: fix a typo (backslash != backquote)
2020-12-01 12:10 [PATCH] config.txt: fix a typo (backslash != backquote) Štěpán Němec
@ 2020-12-01 19:29 ` Martin Ågren
2020-12-01 21:31 ` Junio C Hamano
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Martin Ågren @ 2020-12-01 19:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Štěpán Němec; +Cc: Git Mailing List
On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 at 13:12, Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> wrote:
> A line that defines a value can be continued to the next line by
> -ending it with a `\`; the backquote and the end-of-line are
> +ending it with a `\`; the backslash and the end-of-line are
> stripped. Leading whitespaces after 'name =', the remainder of the
Heh. The backslash is put inside backquotes for rendering as monospace,
so I can see how that happened. This change makes sense to me.
Martin
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* Re: [PATCH] config.txt: fix a typo (backslash != backquote)
2020-12-01 12:10 [PATCH] config.txt: fix a typo (backslash != backquote) Štěpán Němec
2020-12-01 19:29 ` Martin Ågren
@ 2020-12-01 21:31 ` Junio C Hamano
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Junio C Hamano @ 2020-12-01 21:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Štěpán Němec; +Cc: git
Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> writes:
> Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
> ---
> Documentation/config.txt | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Thanks for spotting an ancient typo that is more than 5 years old.
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
> index bf706b950e..9700f6ebf9 100644
> --- a/Documentation/config.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/config.txt
> @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ The variable names are case-insensitive, allow only alphanumeric characters
> and `-`, and must start with an alphabetic character.
>
> A line that defines a value can be continued to the next line by
> -ending it with a `\`; the backquote and the end-of-line are
> +ending it with a `\`; the backslash and the end-of-line are
> stripped. Leading whitespaces after 'name =', the remainder of the
> line after the first comment character '#' or ';', and trailing
> whitespaces of the line are discarded unless they are enclosed in
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