Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes:
>> The bigger question is whether this example is improved by including
>> quotation marks, or whether they are just a distraction from the main
>> point. I abstain.
>
> Thanks for spelling that bigger question out. Given that the
> example is showing distinction between "X" vs "X for Y", I would say
> quotation is a distraction.
>
> If you spelled it as
>
> [core]
> gitproxy = sh -c 'proxy-command' for kernel.org
>
> does the do the right thing? Or do we require the above to be
> spelled as
>
> [core]
> gitproxy = \"sh -c 'proxy-command'\" for kernel.org
>
> to work correctly?
I think the answer is "no", there is no way to specify anything
other than a "path to the command" for gitproxy. So I think we
should do this instead:
-- >8 --
Subject: [PATCH] git-config doc: unconfuse an example
One fictitious command "proxy-command" is enclosed inside a double
quote pair, while another fictitious command "default-proxy" is not
in the example, but the quoting does not change anything in the pair
of examples. Remove the quotes to avoid unnecessary confusion.
Noticed by Michael Haggerty.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com>
---
Documentation/git-config.txt | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
index 5382753..b24faa8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ Given a .git/config like this:
; Proxy settings
[core]
- gitproxy="proxy-command" for kernel.org
+ gitproxy=proxy-command for kernel.org
gitproxy=default-proxy ; for all the rest
you can set the filemode to true with
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