[PATCH] config.txt: add missing period

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2 messages, 2 authors, 2021-03-16 · open the first message on its own page

[PATCH] config.txt: add missing period

From: Kyle Meyer <hidden>
Date: 2021-03-16 14:50:10

Signed-off-by: Kyle Meyer <redacted>
---
 Documentation/config.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 6ba50b1104..06615d840b 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Subsection names are case sensitive and can contain any characters except
 newline and the null byte. Doublequote `"` and backslash can be included
 by escaping them as `\"` and `\\`, respectively. Backslashes preceding
 other characters are dropped when reading; for example, `\t` is read as
-`t` and `\0` is read as `0` Section headers cannot span multiple lines.
+`t` and `\0` is read as `0`. Section headers cannot span multiple lines.
 Variables may belong directly to a section or to a given subsection. You
 can have `[section]` if you have `[section "subsection"]`, but you don't
 need to.

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Re: [PATCH] config.txt: add missing period

From: Jeff King <hidden>
Date: 2021-03-16 15:18:19

On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 10:40:40AM -0400, Kyle Meyer wrote:

quoted hunk

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 6ba50b1104..06615d840b 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Subsection names are case sensitive and can contain any characters except
 newline and the null byte. Doublequote `"` and backslash can be included
 by escaping them as `\"` and `\\`, respectively. Backslashes preceding
 other characters are dropped when reading; for example, `\t` is read as
-`t` and `\0` is read as `0` Section headers cannot span multiple lines.
+`t` and `\0` is read as `0`. Section headers cannot span multiple lines.

Yep, looks obviously correct. I wondered if this got introduced during
some formatting cleanup, but it has been present since the text was
added in 1feb061701 (config.txt: document behavior of backslashes in
subsections, 2017-12-21).

Thanks for spotting.

-Peff

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