[PATCH 5 of 7 STABLE] config: wrap ".orig." in rst quotes

Yuya Nishihara yuya at tcha.org
Sun May 1 21:40:31 EDT 2016


On Sun, 01 May 2016 10:50:32 -0700, Sean Farley wrote:
> Yuya Nishihara <yuya at tcha.org> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, 01 May 2016 00:12:05 -0700, Sean Farley wrote:  
> >> # HG changeset patch
> >> # User Sean Farley <sean at farley.io>
> >> # Date 1462066834 25200
> >> #      Sat Apr 30 18:40:34 2016 -0700
> >> # Branch stable
> >> # Node ID 1068bb9e2d1ce68a01a75f862e475b1c676452ac
> >> # Parent  60d96ee76151c33087068443af42cacfe8a5391e
> >> # EXP-Topic docker-ppa
> >> config: wrap ".orig." in rst quotes
> >> 
> >> Apparently, .orig. is a macro for man pages so we need to wrap it in quotes to
> >> silence lintian warnings.
> >> 
> >> diff --git a/mercurial/help/config.txt b/mercurial/help/config.txt
> >> --- a/mercurial/help/config.txt
> >> +++ b/mercurial/help/config.txt
> >> @@ -1018,12 +1018,12 @@ This section specifies behavior during m
> >>  ``checkignored``
> >>     Controls behavior when an ignored file on disk has the same name as a tracked
> >>     file in the changeset being merged or updated to, and has different
> >>     contents. Options are ``abort``, ``warn`` and ``ignore``. With ``abort``,
> >>     abort on such files. With ``warn``, warn on such files and back them up as
> >> -   .orig. With ``ignore``, don't print a warning and back them up as
> >> -   .orig. (default: ``abort``)
> >> +   ``.orig.`` With ``ignore``, don't print a warning and back them up as
> >> +   ``.orig.`` (default: ``abort``)  
> >
> > Er, ``.orig``. ?  
> 
> I think it's how pedantic you want to be. For ending a sentence, I
> believe you put the punctuation inside the quote. I honestly don't care
> one way or the other, so outside the quote is fine with me, too.

".orig." is one way to render ``.orig.``. It is <tt>.orig.</tt> in HTML, and
man page has different style.

I'll queue the outside-the-quote one, thanks.


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