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Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix typos, grammar, asciidoc syntax

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Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
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Dec 20, 2008, 13:18 UTC
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Junio C Hamano, 20.12.2008:
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> Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> writes:
> 
> > @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ only the primary branches.  In addition, if you happen to be on
> >  your topic branch, it is shown as well.
> >  
> >  ------------
> > -$ git show-branch --reflog='10,1 hour ago' --list master
> > +$ git show-branch --reflog="10,1 hour ago" --list master
> >  ------------
> 
> Is this just a personal taste, or a correction to typography?

When using single quotes, the manpage displayed backticks. I don't know how to obtain single quotes in the manpage, if this is preferred. The HTML page worked though: single quotes were translated to single quotes, double quotes to double quotes.

> Other than this one, I did not find anything else in your patch that
> looked iffy.  Thanks for lending a good set of eyeballs.
Thanks, this happens when reading a lot of documentation :)
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  1. Documentation: fix typos, grammar, asciidoc syntaxMarkus Heidelberg, Dec 19, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 20, 2008
  3. Markus HeidelbergDec 20, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoDec 20, 2008
  5. Teemu LikonenDec 20, 2008
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