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[PATCH] doc: 'git status' quote the zero (NUL) character

From
Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date
Oct 21, 2014, 22:09 UTC
Message-ID
<1413929390-1624-1-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org>

Newer web rendering of 'git status --help --web' shows the zero in "NUL (ASCII 0)" as if it is a small 'o' character. Back-tick quote the zero to ensure it is displayed as a full size mono-spaced font. Also display the "double quote (ASCII 34)" in the same manner.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
---
 Documentation/git-status.txt | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt
index 4d8d530..24390d6 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-status.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ status code.
 The fields (including the `->`) are separated from each other by a
 single space. If a filename contains whitespace or other nonprintable
 characters, that field will be quoted in the manner of a C string
-literal: surrounded by ASCII double quote (34) characters, and with
+literal: surrounded by double quote (ASCII `34`) characters, and with
 interior special characters backslash-escaped.
 
 For paths with merge conflicts, `X` and `Y` show the modification
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ There is also an alternate -z format recommended for machine parsing. In
 that format, the status field is the same, but some other things
 change.  First, the '\->' is omitted from rename entries and the field
 order is reversed (e.g 'from \-> to' becomes 'to from'). Second, a NUL
-(ASCII 0) follows each filename, replacing space as a field separator
+(ASCII `0`) follows each filename, replacing space as a field separator
 and the terminating newline (but a space still separates the status
 field from the first filename).  Third, filenames containing special
 characters are not specially formatted; no quoting or
-- 
1.9.4.msysgit.0
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  1. doc: 'git status' quote the zero (NUL) characterPhilip Oakley, Oct 21, 2014

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