Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 11:24:01AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> I no longer have preference either way myself, even though I was in >> favor of no-quotes simply because I had an alias to produce that >> format and was used to it. > > I'll admit that I don't care _that_ much and am happy to leave it up to > individual authors, as long as nobody quotes SubmittingPatches at me as > some kind of gospel when I use the no-quotes form. ;-). I just do not want to hear "gitk (or was it git-gui) produces quoted form, why are you recommending no-quoted form in SubmittingPatches?" I'd say "use common sense; sometimes it is less confusing to read without quotes and it is perfectly OK to do so if that is the case".