On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 9:48 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Matthew DeVore <matvore@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Add the following guideline to Documentation/CodingGuidelines: > > > > &&, ||, and | should appear at the end of lines, not the > > beginning, and the \ line continuation character should be > > omitted > > "should be omitted" sounds as if it is the norm to have such a > character, but it is not. The text in the actual patch body does a > much better job than this. > > Perhaps > > Break overlong lines after "&&", "||", and "|", not before > them; that way the command can continue to subsequent lines > without backslash at the end. That sounds good. Fixed. > > + - If a command sequence joined with && or || or | spans multiple > > + lines, put each command on a separate line and put && and || and | > > + operators at the end of each line, rather than the start. This > > + means you don't need to use \ to join lines, since the above > > + operators imply the sequence isn't finished. > > Correct. Even though I wonder if we need to say the last sentence, > which is rather obvious, patch is already written and I do not see > much point editing this further. ack > > @@ -466,6 +466,34 @@ And here are the "don'ts:" > > platform commands; just use '! cmd'. We are not in the business > > of verifying that the world given to us sanely works. > > > > + - Don't use Git upstream in the non-final position in a piped chain, as > > + in: > > "upstream in the non-final position" is a bit redundant, isn't it? > > - Don't feed the output of 'git' to a pipe, as in: Done, but I changed it to "Don't feed the output of a git command to a pipe, as in:" since referring to it as "git command" without the quotes seems rather common in this file. Thank you for the review!
