Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2016-06-15

Re: [PATCH] doc: fix 'git status --help' character quoting

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 23:02:45

"Philip Oakley" [off-list ref] writes:
From: "Junio C Hamano" <redacted>
...
quoted
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)
quoted
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(which IIUC is out of date) has an unformatted 0.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 ;-)
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