On 15 February 2017 at 21:21, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 09:06:46PM +0000, Fabrizio Cucci wrote: >> Shouldn't the wrong flag be surrounded by two single quotes instead of >> a back quote and a single quote? > > Some people use the matched backtick/single-quote to emulate the > non-symmetric start/end quotes used in traditional typography (and in > fact, ``foo'' in languages like asciidoc are typically rendered using > smart-quotes). I definitely didn't know about the use of them in traditional typography! But I couldn't find any example of non-symmetric quotes in AsciiDoc... > So I think what you are seeing is not wrong in the sense of being > unintended by the author of the message. I had the opposite impression from the quick search in the GitHub repo, this is why I wrote here looking for some confirmation. > I don't know how much we care about standardizing that punctuation. I mentioned it was very minor but, still, in my opinion a project like Git deserves consistent punctuation! :)