On Wed, Sep 22 2021, Taylor Blau wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 12:28:22PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 06:17:45PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: >> >> There is a quoting mismatch quoting `--` separator in "no usage string >> >> given...." message (`' instead of ``). Fix it. >> > >> > For what it's worth, I think that the `' style is typographic, since the >> > pair look like English "smart quotes" (as opposed to straight quotes). I >> > have no opinion about which is better, but I don't think the pre-image >> > was necessarily a mistake. >> >> I thought that we try to avoid "smart quotes" in our messages. > > I think UTF-8 smart quotes are generally frowned upon in source code, > but I didn't think we had any hard-and-fast rule about whether to prefer > 'this' to `that' (for what it's worth, I prefer the former and it seems > to be more common). No comment on what's preferred, other than I wish we'd pick a style and stick to it. Just a note that this used to be the way to do it in e.g. the GNU guidelines, I see it isn't anymore though: [1]. 1. https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Quote-Characters-1
