Re: [git-users] [BUG] TABs in documentation

[Philip Oakley]

Hi Dan,

Sounds highly plausible.

I think the fix would be to send a simple patch upstream to change the 
tabs to 8 spaces (because of the poor HTML formatting in some browsers).


It's fairly easy. 'Just' download and install the SDK (the Contribute 
button), subscribe to the g...@vger.kernel.org list (via the 'majordomo' 
manager), and then send a patch via the send-email facility (which 
bypasses the 'No HTML'/ 'Plain text only' issue for most folks). Usually 
requires a couple of iterations for minor issues, but it's not too 
painful, and wins Kudos points ;-)


Philip

On 27/01/2019 12:21, Dan Alexandru wrote:
I’m not sure where to report this, but in git version 2.20.1.windows.1 
there’s a problem with the non-printable characters of the 
documentation files.


For example, running `git merge-base --help` opens 
file:///C:/Program%20Files/Git/mingw64/share/doc/git-doc/git-merge-base.html 
which includes ASCII 0x09 TAB characters in the history graphs, which 
are rendered misleadingly in my Chromium-based browser (but fine in 
Firefox).


Specifically, here’s how the last tabs-and-spaces-preformatted graph 
at the bottom of that page looks to me:


vivaldi-pre-offline.png

which wrongly suggests that the rebase point of the previous command 
was B^ instead of the actual B (due to the TABs being rendered 
narrower than the SPACEs).


Interestingly, the corresponding online page 
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-merge-base renders fine (like in Firefox):


vivaldi-pre-online.png

perhaps due to some fonts substitutions.

I think that this whole problem would be avoided if the 0x09 TAB 
characters from the documentation were replaced with 0x20 SPACE 
characters.


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[git-users] [BUG] TABs in documentation

[Dan Alexandru]

I’m not sure where to report this, but in git version 2.20.1.windows.1 
there’s a problem with the non-printable characters of the documentation 
files.

For example, running `git merge-base --help` opens 
file:///C:/Program%20Files/Git/mingw64/share/doc/git-doc/git-merge-base.html 
which includes ASCII 0x09 TAB characters in the history graphs, which are 
rendered misleadingly in my Chromium-based browser (but fine in Firefox).

Specifically, here’s how the last tabs-and-spaces-preformatted graph at the 
bottom of that page looks to me:

[image: vivaldi-pre-offline.png]
which wrongly suggests that the rebase point of the previous command was B^ 
instead of the actual B (due to the TABs being rendered narrower than the 
SPACEs).

Interestingly, the corresponding online page 
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-merge-base renders fine (like in Firefox):

[image: vivaldi-pre-online.png]
perhaps due to some fonts substitutions.

I think that this whole problem would be avoided if the 0x09 TAB characters 
from the documentation were replaced with 0x20 SPACE characters.

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