From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:37:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] The correct and consistent alternative to quote a command ?
Message-ID: <xmqqo9rydlqr.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1501676577.1957.4.camel@gmail.com>

Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, 2017-08-01 at 10:38 -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:
>> > I assume you mean the consistency in quoting i.e., you're expecting the
>> > patch to use (") instead of (') for quoting. Correct me, if I'm wrong.
>> 
>> Actually I did not imply any expectation on the outcome, because I
>> do not know what the consistency end game looks like for this issue.
>> 
>> So maybe we'd want to go with the currently most used way?
> On scanning through Documentation/SubmittingPatches, I saw that most of
> the commands were quoted using double quotes and chose to use it for
> this patch. I'm not sure if it's the right one to use.

After reading the patch before seeing the above, I also came to the
conclusion that the above is exactly what you are aiming at, and I
thought that was a reasonable thing to do.