Re: [RFC] The correct and consistent alternative to quote a command ?
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Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
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- Aug 2, 2017, 17:32 UTC
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On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 5:22 AM, Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, 2017-08-01 at 10:38 -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:
>> > I assume you mean the consistency in quoting i.e., you're expecting the
>> > patch to use (") instead of (') for quoting. Correct me, if I'm wrong.
>>
>> Actually I did not imply any expectation on the outcome, because I
>> do not know what the consistency end game looks like for this issue.
>>
>> So maybe we'd want to go with the currently most used way?
> On scanning through Documentation/SubmittingPatches, I saw that most of
> the commands were quoted using double quotes and chose to use it for
> this patch. I'm not sure if it's the right one to use.Thanks for checking. I think it is a reasonable thing to do then.
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> > Changing the subject of this mail; hoping some one who has thoughts > about this would dive-in. > >> (Are there only three? (a) with dash, (b) with single quotes and >> (c) with double quotes?) > > -- > Kaartic