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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Cc:     Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
        git@vger.kernel.org, me@ttaylorr.com, Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git-rebase.txt: use back-ticks consistently
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Date:   Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:18:55 -0700
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Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:

> On 28/06/2022 22:49, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> "Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
>>> @@ -537,7 +539,7 @@ See also REBASING MERGES and INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below.
>>>   -x <cmd>::
>>>   --exec <cmd>::
>>>   	Append "exec <cmd>" after each line creating a commit in the
>> I thought `exec <cmd>` was an improvement, just like ...
>
> I'm not so sure, I thought we normally reserved backticks for command
> line options and this is talking about what gets added to the
> todo-list. I could see "exec `<cmd>`" being an improvement
> though. There are several other mentions of todo list commands in the
> documentation and I think they are all double quoted like this one.

OK.  Thanks for correcting me.