# [PATCH] config.txt: fix a typo (backslash != backquote) 3 messages from 2020-12-01 to 2020-12-01. Participants: Štěpán Němec, Martin Ågren, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/54741 ## Štěpán Němec, 2020-12-01 12:10 Subject: [PATCH] config.txt: fix a typo (backslash != backquote) Message-ID: <20201201121051.186050-1-stepnem@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20201201121051.186050-1-stepnem%40gmail.com ``` Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec --- Documentation/config.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index bf706b950e..9700f6ebf9 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ 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 backquote and the end-of-line are +ending it with a `\`; the backslash and the end-of-line are stripped. Leading whitespaces after 'name =', the remainder of the line after the first comment character '#' or ';', and trailing whitespaces of the line are discarded unless they are enclosed in -- 2.29.2 ``` ## Martin Ågren, 2020-12-01 19:29 Subject: Re: [PATCH] config.txt: fix a typo (backslash != backquote) Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAN0heSpj7hkpy_wXk5hDa0v21a6sMw8RhqsHQBrUf5Up1xwguA%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20201201121051.186050-1-stepnem@gmail.com> ``` On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 at 13:12, Štěpán Němec wrote: > A line that defines a value can be continued to the next line by > -ending it with a `\`; the backquote and the end-of-line are > +ending it with a `\`; the backslash and the end-of-line are > stripped. Leading whitespaces after 'name =', the remainder of the Heh. The backslash is put inside backquotes for rendering as monospace, so I can see how that happened. This change makes sense to me. Martin ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2020-12-01 21:31 Subject: Re: [PATCH] config.txt: fix a typo (backslash != backquote) Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqq4kl5nrgo.fsf%40gitster.c.googlers.com In-Reply-To: <20201201121051.186050-1-stepnem@gmail.com> ``` Štěpán Němec writes: > Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec > --- > Documentation/config.txt | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Thanks for spotting an ancient typo that is more than 5 years old. > > diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt > index bf706b950e..9700f6ebf9 100644 > --- a/Documentation/config.txt > +++ b/Documentation/config.txt > @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ 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 backquote and the end-of-line are > +ending it with a `\`; the backslash and the end-of-line are > stripped. Leading whitespaces after 'name =', the remainder of the > line after the first comment character '#' or ';', and trailing > whitespaces of the line are discarded unless they are enclosed in ```