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Re: Minor man page weirdness?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 18, 2017, 03:41 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> It does make me wonder if there are other instances of the missing-space
> problem lurking. Grepping for backtick followed by single-quote shows
> only one more case in user-manual.txt. I have no idea if that one hits
> the same problem on older docbook versions.

I had an impression that this is only for roff, but we do not produce user-manual.[0-9], do we?

> Or if it's a problem for any
> other punctuation combinations. I'm happy to punt on it until somebody
> with an affected docbook produces more bug reports. :)
Yup, we cannot _fix_ what we do not know are broken ;-)
Thanks.
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