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config.txt: fix a typo (backslash != backquote)

Message ID 20201201121051.186050-1-stepnem@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit e63d77424264b25c0d12682543cd9bd951dfd52c
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Series config.txt: fix a typo (backslash != backquote) | expand

Commit Message

Štěpán Němec Dec. 1, 2020, 12:10 p.m. UTC
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/config.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Martin Ågren Dec. 1, 2020, 7:29 p.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 at 13:12, Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> wrote:
>  A line that defines a value can be continued to the next line by
> -ending it with a `\`; the backquote and the end-of-line are
> +ending it with a `\`; the backslash and the end-of-line are
>  stripped.  Leading whitespaces after 'name =', the remainder of the

Heh. The backslash is put inside backquotes for rendering as monospace,
so I can see how that happened. This change makes sense to me.

Martin
Junio C Hamano Dec. 1, 2020, 9:31 p.m. UTC | #2
Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> writes:

> Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/config.txt | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Thanks for spotting an ancient typo that is more than 5 years old.

>
> diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
> index bf706b950e..9700f6ebf9 100644
> --- a/Documentation/config.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/config.txt
> @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ The variable names are case-insensitive, allow only alphanumeric characters
>  and `-`, and must start with an alphabetic character.
>  
>  A line that defines a value can be continued to the next line by
> -ending it with a `\`; the backquote and the end-of-line are
> +ending it with a `\`; the backslash and the end-of-line are
>  stripped.  Leading whitespaces after 'name =', the remainder of the
>  line after the first comment character '#' or ';', and trailing
>  whitespaces of the line are discarded unless they are enclosed in
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Patch

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index bf706b950e..9700f6ebf9 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@  The variable names are case-insensitive, allow only alphanumeric characters
 and `-`, and must start with an alphabetic character.
 
 A line that defines a value can be continued to the next line by
-ending it with a `\`; the backquote and the end-of-line are
+ending it with a `\`; the backslash and the end-of-line are
 stripped.  Leading whitespaces after 'name =', the remainder of the
 line after the first comment character '#' or ';', and trailing
 whitespaces of the line are discarded unless they are enclosed in