From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee•org>
Cc: "GitList" <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: fix 'git status --help' character quoting
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:54:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq38ai34bh.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DB0FCB7CEC8C453D9237CA4FFA687EDC@PhilipOakley> (Philip Oakley's message of "Mon, 20 Oct 2014 20:28:09 +0100")
"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee•org> writes:
> From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox•com>
> ...
>> I think it is just the font. I just opened the above page with
>> Chrome and futzed the text from '0' to '0123456789' to see how it
>> look. That round thing is consistent with how other digits are
>> rendered.
>>
>> https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JunioCHamano/posts/dzNXV2FwP6K
>>
>> (sorry for a URL to plus)
>>
>>> https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-status.html
>>> (which IIUC is out of date) has an unformatted 0.
>> --
>
> I've just had a look at how it formats when the zero is back-tick
> quoted s /ASCII 0/ASCII `0`/ and it looks OK with both Chromium and
> Firefox on my hack Ubuntu laptop - the character is colourised and
> full sized, and the --man page output looks unchanged and clearly a
> zero.
>
> my hacky attempt at an in-line patch (squash in?) below:
You'd need a matching change to 34 in the same document to preserve
the consistency the original patch sought, though ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-20 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-19 14:17 [PATCH] doc: fix 'git status --help' character quoting Philip Oakley
2014-10-19 22:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-10-20 10:46 ` Philip Oakley
2014-10-20 11:31 ` Philip Oakley
2014-10-20 17:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-10-20 19:28 ` Philip Oakley
2014-10-20 19:54 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-10-20 20:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-10-21 22:08 ` Philip Oakley
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