From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 22:04:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] docs: demonstrate difference between 'am' and 'apply'
Message-ID: <xmqqblh1akuh.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20201016211327.GC3356073@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I think it is OK as-is, but it might be easier to follow visually with
> text like:
>
>    Here's a sample patch that we'll use below.
>
>    -----
>    $ cat the-patch, etc
>    -----
>
>
>    We can apply it with `git am`, which will create a new commit:
>
>    -----
>    $ git am ...etc...
>    -----
>
> Especially in the HTML version, which puts the code blocks into a box
> with a different backgrounds, that makes it easy to visually jump to
> each box without having to carefully read the contents.

I agree that presentation-wise the above style is much nicer to
follow.