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Re: [RFC PATCH] git push: Push nothing if no refspecs are given or configured

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Mar 9, 2009, 21:10 UTC
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On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 09:48:31PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> > > The two spaces after the full stop were not actually a typo.
> > 
> > What's its purpose? Just recently I added "set nojoinspaces" to my
> > .vimrc to not insert two spaces when joining sentences.
> 
> It was explained to me as "English grammar".  Two spaces after a full 
> stop.

It's not grammar, but rather a typographical convention dating to monospaced print fonts. It's mostly outdated these days for computer input, as markup languages will put in the "right" amount of space automatically (e.g., one and two spaces after a period are equivalent in both TeX and HTML) and proportional fonts and justification mean your spacing isn't standard, anyway. So as a rule, it seems to be dying out. You can google "two spaces after period" to see the ensuing flamewars.

In this particular instance, we consider the pre-markup version something readable (since that is the point of asciidoc), and people will tend to view it in a monospaced fonts. So it at least makes a difference here (and you can then have a flamewar about how it looks).

-Peff
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Message 23 of 23 in “git push: Push nothing if no refspecs are given or configured”
  1. git push: Push nothing if no refspecs are given or configuredFinn Arne Gangstad, Mar 5, 2009
  2. Sverre RabbelierMar 5, 2009
  3. Markus HeidelbergMar 5, 2009
  4. Markus HeidelbergMar 5, 2009
  5. Sverre RabbelierMar 5, 2009
  6. Johannes SchindelinMar 6, 2009
  7. Junio C HamanoMar 6, 2009
  8. Sverre RabbelierMar 6, 2009
  9. Finn Arne GangstadMar 6, 2009
  10. Johannes SchindelinMar 6, 2009
  11. Finn Arne GangstadMar 6, 2009
  12. Jakub NarebskiMar 6, 2009
  13. Junio C HamanoMar 6, 2009
  14. Johannes SchindelinMar 7, 2009
  15. Johannes SchindelinMar 6, 2009
  16. John TapsellMar 6, 2009
  17. Jakub NarebskiMar 6, 2009
  18. Junio C HamanoMar 5, 2009
  19. Johannes SchindelinMar 6, 2009
  20. Markus HeidelbergMar 9, 2009
  21. Johannes SchindelinMar 9, 2009
  22. Markus HeidelbergMar 9, 2009
  23. Jeff KingMar 9, 2009

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