Jim Meyering wrote: > Reuben Thomas wrote: > >> I attach a patch which makes simpler changes than those I suggested >> before. In particular, for the man page I just replaced "` '" with >> "space" because I can't see a way to put a non-breaking space into >> help text which will then also work in the man page after going >> through help2man (perhaps a Unicode non-breaking space would work, but >> it doesn't seem sensible to try!). >> >>>From bd0ed380c7050a1b55fca71da075fd9853442b1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Reuben Thomas <[email protected]> >> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 16:05:17 +0100 >> Subject: [PATCH] md5sum: clarify what is meant by binary/text flag. >> >> src/md5sum.c: Clarify that we are talking about input mode. >> doc/coreutils.texi: Ditto. > > Thanks. > I've applied that with the log adjusted to conform: > > doc: clarify what is meant by md5sum's binary/text flag > > * src/md5sum.c (usage): Clarify that we are talking about input mode. > * doc/coreutils.texi (md5sum invocation): Ditto.
Rats. I made those changes in a COMMIT_EDITMSG buffer editor, and then wrote the above reply. Then I pushed your commit, but without realizing I had never actually amended the commit. My editor buffer was still there (just buried). Looks like I need a local pre-push hook that would check for a pending operation like that.
