[PATCH v2] doc: check-ignore: code-quote an exclamation mark
From: Philip Oakley <hidden>
Date: 2022-02-03 10:16:54
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
The plain quoted exclamation mark renders as italics in the Windows pdf help manual. Fix this with back-tick quoting and surrounding double quotes as exemplified by the gitignore.txt guide. While at it, fix the surrounding double quotes for the other special characters usages. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <redacted> --- Since V1: Corrected finger trouble with special character when copy-pasting. Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt
index 0c3924a63d..2892799e32 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ OPTIONS Instead of printing the paths that are excluded, for each path that matches an exclude pattern, print the exclude pattern together with the path. (Matching an exclude pattern usually - means the path is excluded, but if the pattern begins with '!' + means the path is excluded, but if the pattern begins with "`!`" then it is a negated pattern and matching it means the path is NOT excluded.) +
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ If `--verbose` is specified, the output is a series of lines of the form: <pathname> is the path of a file being queried, <pattern> is the matching pattern, <source> is the pattern's source file, and <linenum> is the line number of the pattern within that source. If the pattern -contained a `!` prefix or `/` suffix, it will be preserved in the +contained a "`!`" prefix or "`/`" suffix, it will be preserved in the output. <source> will be an absolute path when referring to the file configured by `core.excludesFile`, or relative to the repository root when referring to `.git/info/exclude` or a per-directory exclude file.
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