Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> writes: > The plain quoted exclamation mark renders as italics in the > Windows pdf help manual. HTML rendered version shows <em>!</em> and depending on the stylesheet it would become italic, too. It can be seen in the pre-rendered versions I ship at [1]. > Fix this with back-tick quoting and surrounding double quotes > as exemplified by the gitignore.txt guide. This becomes "<code>!</code>" (with surrounding double-quotes) [2], and making these two pages consistent makes sense. > While at it, fix the surrounding double quotes for the other > special characters usages. This changes also sounds good, too. Will apply. Thanks. [References] *1* https://github.com/gitster/git-htmldocs/blob/master/git-check-ignore.html *2* https://github.com/gitster/git-htmldocs/blob/master/gitignore.html > > Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> > --- > > Since V1: > Corrected finger trouble with special character when copy-pasting. > > Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt > index 0c3924a63d..2892799e32 100644 > --- a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt > +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt > @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ OPTIONS > Instead of printing the paths that are excluded, for each path > that matches an exclude pattern, print the exclude pattern > together with the path. (Matching an exclude pattern usually > - means the path is excluded, but if the pattern begins with '!' > + means the path is excluded, but if the pattern begins with "`!`" > then it is a negated pattern and matching it means the path is > NOT excluded.) > + > @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ If `--verbose` is specified, the output is a series of lines of the form: > <pathname> is the path of a file being queried, <pattern> is the > matching pattern, <source> is the pattern's source file, and <linenum> > is the line number of the pattern within that source. If the pattern > -contained a `!` prefix or `/` suffix, it will be preserved in the > +contained a "`!`" prefix or "`/`" suffix, it will be preserved in the > output. <source> will be an absolute path when referring to the file > configured by `core.excludesFile`, or relative to the repository root > when referring to `.git/info/exclude` or a per-directory exclude file.
