Re: [PATCH 2/3] doc: remove non pure ASCII characters

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 13, 2019, 21:58 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqmubvhoqx.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <2958852.hm7A7XRobS@cayenne>

Jean-Noël AVILA <jn.avila@free.fr> writes:

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>> Thanks.  I've always wanted to do this, but it is a bit surprising
>> that there is only this single instance?
>
> There's another one in git-format-patch.txt, "Uwe Kleine-König diet", but this one does not seem to cause issues and it is difficult to replace it with ASCII only.
>
> Should I try to find an alternative text?

No, let's keep names of people as-is, if they are not causing issues.

What surprised me was the apparent lack of these "smarter" apostrophes and quotes.

Thanks.

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>> 
>> > diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
>> > index 34011c2940..2e8babe671 100644
>> > --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
>> > +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
>> > @@ -262,9 +262,9 @@ or `--mirror` is given)
>> >  	All submodules which are cloned will be shallow with a depth of 1.
>> >  
>> >  --[no-]remote-submodules::
>> > -	All submodules which are cloned will use the status of the submodule’s
>> > +	All submodules which are cloned will use the status of the submodule's
>> >  	remote-tracking branch to update the submodule, rather than the
>> > -	superproject’s recorded SHA-1. Equivalent to passing `--remote` to
>> > +	superproject's recorded SHA-1. Equivalent to passing `--remote` to
>> >  	`git submodule update`.
>> >  
>> >  --separate-git-dir=<git dir>::
>>