Re: [PATCH 2/3] config.txt: perform some minor reformatting

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 14, 2024, 01:58 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqedcd1sm5.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <d50c0f22c41ec36b574e1ff67e68485d9a6f2a84.1710258538.git.dsimic@manjaro.org>

Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org> writes:

> Reformat a few lines a bit, to utilize the available horizontal space better.
> There are no changes to the actual contents of the documentation.

I was a bit surprised to see such a "preliminary clean-up" step to come before the main change, not after, but separating this from the change to the next paragraph, which is the main change in this series, is nevertheless a very good idea.

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>
> Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/config.txt | 10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
> index 4480bb44203b..2fc4a52d8d76 100644
> --- a/Documentation/config.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/config.txt
> @@ -58,11 +58,11 @@ compared case sensitively. These subsection names follow the same
>  restrictions as section names.
>  
>  All the other lines (and the remainder of the line after the section
> -header) are recognized as setting variables, in the form
> -'name = value' (or just 'name', which is a short-hand to say that
> -the variable is the boolean "true").
> -The variable names are case-insensitive, allow only alphanumeric characters
> -and `-`, and must start with an alphabetic character.
> +header) are recognized as setting variables, in the form 'name = value'
> +(or just 'name', which is a short-hand to say that the variable is the
> +boolean "true").  The variable names are case-insensitive, allow only
> +alphanumeric characters and `-`, and must start with an alphabetic
> +character.
>  
>  A line that defines a value can be continued to the next line by
>  ending it with a `\`; the backslash and the end-of-line are stripped.