From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@xxxxxxx> writes:
From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
Philip Oakley <philipoakley@xxxxxxx> writes:
...
[ (ASCII 0) change]
The reason I proposed the change is because on the web view, on my
machine, I questioned whether the specially formatted character
(remember its quotation is consumed by ascidoc) looked too much like
an Oh, so I specially checked on the original .txt to see if it was
correct there, which led me to the proposal for '00' in this case.
I'd be just as happy with a single zero, as long as it's distinct
from
O (as you probably know, in the depths of hsitory typewriters didn't
even have 0 and 1 keys - the O and l were used interchangably and
many
fonts keep too much to that pattern of undifferetiability!)
Yes, and that is why I said
there is
no risk for anybody to mistake "O" (oh) as part of digits, whether
you use decimal or hexadecimal.
;-)
Note the more recent http://git-scm.com/docs/git-status has the
formatted round o and
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(which IIUC is out of date) has an unformatted 0.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:
--
Philip
----->8----
commit 51ec35a196057eae60bb9285c38fb22e49aae1b0
Author: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Oct 20 20:21:56 2014 +0100
doc: 'git status' quote the zero (NUL) character
Newer web rendering of 'git status --help --web' shows the zero in
"NUL (ASCII 0)" as if it is a small 'o' character. Back-tick quote
the
zero to ensure it is displayed as a full size mono-spaced font.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@xxxxxxx>
diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt
index 4d8d530..379aa08 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-status.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ There is also an alternate -z format recommended for
machine parsing. In
that format, the status field is the same, but some other things
change. First, the '\->' is omitted from rename entries and the field
order is reversed (e.g 'from \-> to' becomes 'to from'). Second, a NUL
-(ASCII 0) follows each filename, replacing space as a field separator
+(ASCII `0`) follows each filename, replacing space as a field separator
and the terminating newline (but a space still separates the status
field from the first filename). Third, filenames containing special
characters are not specially formatted; no quoting or
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