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Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Fix indentation problem in git-commit(1)

From
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date
Feb 15, 2010, 09:08 UTC
Message-ID
<201002151008.31980.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To
<1266194717-25438-1-git-send-email-jacob.helwig@gmail.com>
On Monday 15 February 2010 01:45:17 Jacob Helwig wrote:
> All options listed after "-u[<mode>], --untracked-files[=<mode>]" in the
> git-commit(1) manpage ended up listed as though they were part of the
> description for -u/--untracked-files.  This was introduced by d6293d1.

Wow. I once spent something that felt like an hour fiddling with different options and eventually just gave up without results.

I think the caveat
> I'm not entirely happy with this patch, since the "See linkgit..."
> paragraph does not retain its previous indentation level in the
> manpages, or HTML documentation.

should go into the commit message in some form, but it's definitely an improvement either way.

So,
Acked-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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  1. Documentation: Fix indentation problem in git-commit(1)Jacob Helwig, Feb 15, 2010
  2. Thomas RastFeb 15, 2010
  3. Documentation: Fix indentation problem in git-commit(1)Jacob Helwig, Feb 15, 2010
  4. Jacob HelwigFeb 19, 2010
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 20, 2010

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