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Re: [PATCH] doc: fix 'git status --help' character quoting

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 20, 2014, 19:54 UTC
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"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:
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> From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
> ...
>> I think it is just the font. I just opened the above page with
>> Chrome and futzed the text from '0' to '0123456789' to see how it
>> look.  That round thing is consistent with how other digits are
>> rendered.
>>
>> https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JunioCHamano/posts/dzNXV2FwP6K
>>
>> (sorry for a URL to plus)
>>
>>> https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-status.html
>>> (which IIUC is out of date) has an unformatted 0.
>> --
>
> I've just had a look at how it formats when the zero is back-tick
> quoted s /ASCII 0/ASCII `0`/ and it looks OK with both Chromium and
> Firefox on my hack Ubuntu laptop - the character is colourised and
> full sized, and the --man page output looks unchanged and clearly a
> zero.
>
> my hacky attempt at an in-line patch (squash in?) below:

You'd need a matching change to 34 in the same document to preserve the consistency the original patch sought, though ;-)

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  1. doc: fix 'git status --help' character quotingPhilip Oakley, Oct 19, 2014
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 19, 2014
  3. Philip OakleyOct 20, 2014
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