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Re: [PATCH] documentation: git-config minor cleanups

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 18, 2010, 03:38 UTC
Message-ID
<20101018033722.GA3340@burratino>
In-Reply-To
<1287371445-26134-1-git-send-email-cliff@meraki.com>
Cliff Frey wrote:
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> Change push.default's description to add hyphens between values and
> descriptions to make the manpage easier to read.  The html version is
> readable either way.
> 
> Change status.showUntrackedFiles to make item descriptions be
> sentences and to use the same asciidoc format as push.default.
Yep, it is hard to read
| ·    nothing do not push anything.
|
| ·    matching push all matching branches. All
|     branches having the same name in both ends are
[etc]
without the font change to indicate where each term begins and ends.
So for what it's worth:
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Thanks.
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> --- a/Documentation/config.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/config.txt
> @@ -1765,9 +1765,9 @@ status.showUntrackedFiles::
>  	the untracked files. Possible values are:
>  +
>  --
> -	- 'no'     - Show no untracked files
> -	- 'normal' - Shows untracked files and directories
> -	- 'all'    - Shows also individual files in untracked directories.
> +* `no` - Show no untracked files.
> +* `normal` - Shows untracked files and directories.
> +* `all` - Shows also individual files in untracked directories.
If you are making these into sentences, they should be
 - Show no untracked...
 - Show untracked...
 - Also show...
, no?  [i.e., s/Shows/Show/c]
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