Re: [PATCH] Fix indentation problem in git-ls-files(1)

From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Mar 17, 2010, 06:47 UTC
Message-ID: <4BA07AEE.2080100@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <m2pr34kpzm.fsf@igel.home>

Andreas Schwab schrieb:

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> Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:
> 
>> Andreas Schwab schrieb:
>>> The nested list in the description of the -t option wasn't properly
>>> indented.  Additionally, make it a horizontal labeled list since the
>>> labels are all short.
>> IMHO, converting a vertical list to a horizontal list is a step in the
>> wrong direction, even if the labels are short. It is far easier to scan a
>> vertical list for a match than a horizontal list.
> 
> The linebreak after the label is useless when all labels are much
> shorter than the indentation.

I use Junio's man pages, and they look like so:

       -t
           Identify the file status with the following tags
           (followed by a space) at the start of each line:

           H   cached
           S   skip-worktree
           M   unmerged
           R   removed/deleted
           C   modified/changed
           K   to be killed
           ?   other

and the HTML version at http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-ls-files.html looks OK as well. I see nothing that needs fixing in either case.

-- Hannes