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Re: [PATCH] config.txt: add missing period

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Mar 16, 2021, 15:17 UTC
Message-ID
<YFDL9vOM73/LDL5v@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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<20210316144040.23976-1-kyle@kyleam.com>
On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 10:40:40AM -0400, Kyle Meyer wrote:
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> diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
> index 6ba50b1104..06615d840b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/config.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/config.txt
> @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Subsection names are case sensitive and can contain any characters except
>  newline and the null byte. Doublequote `"` and backslash can be included
>  by escaping them as `\"` and `\\`, respectively. Backslashes preceding
>  other characters are dropped when reading; for example, `\t` is read as
> -`t` and `\0` is read as `0` Section headers cannot span multiple lines.
> +`t` and `\0` is read as `0`. Section headers cannot span multiple lines.

Yep, looks obviously correct. I wondered if this got introduced during some formatting cleanup, but it has been present since the text was added in 1feb061701 (config.txt: document behavior of backslashes in subsections, 2017-12-21).

Thanks for spotting.
-Peff
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  1. config.txt: add missing periodKyle Meyer, Mar 16, 2021
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