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[PATCH 2/2] docs/diffcore: unquote "Complete Rewrites" in headers

From
Patrick Steinhardt <patrick.steinhardt@elego.de>
Date
Feb 28, 2017, 08:59 UTC
Message-ID
<576fa5be072ebd503aa553ef24290c77ed34eeb1.1488272203.git.patrick.steinhardt@elego.de>
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The gitdiffcore documentation quotes the term "Complete Rewrites" in headers for no real gain. This would make sense if the term could be easily confused if not properly grouped together. But actually, the term is quite obvious and thus does not really need any quoting, especially regarding that it is not used anywhere else.

But more importanly, this brings up a bug when rendering man pages: when trying to render quotes inside of a section header, we end up with quotes which have been misaligned to the end of line. E.g.

    diffcore-break: For Splitting Up Complete Rewrites
    --------------------------------------------------
renders as
    DIFFCORE-BREAK: FOR SPLITTING UP  COMPLETE REWRITES""

, which is obviously wrong. While this is fixable for the man pages by using double-quotes (e.g. ""COMPLETE REWRITES""), this again breaks it for our generated HTML pages.

So fix the issue by simply dropping quotes inside of section headers, which is currently only done for the term "Complete Rewrites".

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
---

The obvious other route here would be to fix how the stylesheets handle quoting inside of these headers. But after taking a short look, I didn't really get how our stylesheets actually stitch together and as such bailed from doing so.

 Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt
index cf009a187..c0a60f315 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt
@@ -84,8 +84,8 @@ format sections of the manual for 'git diff-{asterisk}' commands) or
 diff-patch format.
 
 
-diffcore-break: For Splitting Up "Complete Rewrites"
-----------------------------------------------------
+diffcore-break: For Splitting Up Complete Rewrites
+--------------------------------------------------
 
 The second transformation in the chain is diffcore-break, and is
 controlled by the -B option to the 'git diff-{asterisk}' commands.  This is
@@ -177,8 +177,8 @@ the expense of making it slower.  Without `--find-copies-harder`,
 copied happened to have been modified in the same changeset.
 
 
-diffcore-merge-broken: For Putting "Complete Rewrites" Back Together
---------------------------------------------------------------------
+diffcore-merge-broken: For Putting Complete Rewrites Back Together
+------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 This transformation is used to merge filepairs broken by
 diffcore-break, and not transformed into rename/copy by
-- 
2.12.0
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