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Re: [PATCH] doc: fix formatting of function-wrap shell alias

From
Jean-Noël AVILA <jn.avila@free.fr>
Date
Sep 1, 2025, 19:17 UTC
Message-ID
<2796730.mvXUDI8C0e@cayenne>
In-Reply-To
<20250901180419.2212086-1-kyle@kemitchell.com>
On Monday, 1 September 2025 20:04:18 CEST Kyle E. Mitchell wrote:
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> Add a missed backtick to the end of a code segment so that it will be
> rendered like preceding examples.
> 
> I deeply appreciate the thoroughness of this documentation.  I noticed
> the formatting discrepancy reading https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kyle E. Mitchell <kyle@kemitchell.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/config/alias.adoc | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/config/alias.adoc b/Documentation/config/
alias.adoc
> index 2c5db0ad84..95825354bf 100644
> --- a/Documentation/config/alias.adoc
> +++ b/Documentation/config/alias.adoc
> @@ -38,6 +38,6 @@ it will be treated as a shell command.  For example, 
defining
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>  ** A convenient way to deal with this is to write your script
>     operations in an inline function that is then called with any
>     arguments from the command-line.  For example `alias.cmd = "!c() {
> -   echo $1 | grep $2 ; }; c" will correctly execute the prior example.
> +   echo $1 | grep $2 ; }; c"` will correctly execute the prior example.
>  ** Setting `GIT_TRACE=1` can help you debug the command being run for
>     your alias.
Obviously correct.
Thanks!
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