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Re: [PATCH] filter-branch documentation: some more touch-ups.

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jul 4, 2007, 10:58 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0707041155110.4071@racer.site>
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Hi,
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:
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> - The map function used to fail, but no longer does (since 3520e1e8687.)
> - Fix the "edge-graft" example.
> - Show the same using .git/info/grafts.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
> ---
> 
> I think that "edge-graft" makes more sense than "etch-graft".
> Native speakers, please?

I looked at dict.leo.org, and it does not know either version. Maybe it is just "graft"?

Except for that,
Acked-by: Johannes E. Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> I tried the example, and its quoting was incorrect. The reason is that
> the shell removes the single quotes even if they are in the middle of
> a word; so they didn't end up in the eval'd script and made sed barf.

Thanks for sanity checking. It looked so obviously correct to me that I did not bother checking, but your are correct, they were broken. Unfortunately, I even would have missed it writing a test case, because that need an extra level of quoting!

Ciao, Dscho

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Message 11 of 12 in “Document git-filter-branch”
  1. Document git-filter-branchJohannes Schindelin, Jul 3, 2007
  2. Frank LichtenheldJul 3, 2007
  3. Johannes SchindelinJul 3, 2007
  4. Frank LichtenheldJul 4, 2007
  5. filter-branch: a few more touch ups to the man pageJohannes Schindelin, Jul 4, 2007
  6. Frank LichtenheldJul 4, 2007
  7. Jakub NarebskiJul 11, 2007
  8. Johannes SchindelinJul 11, 2007
  9. Document git-filter-branchJohannes Schindelin, Jul 3, 2007
  10. filter-branch documentation: some more touch-ups.Johannes Sixt, Jul 4, 2007
  11. Johannes SchindelinJul 4, 2007
  12. Junio C HamanoJul 4, 2007

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