Am 26.08.2016 um 20:24 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
Beat Bolli <[email protected]> writes:In 175d38c ("SubmittingPatches: document how to reference previous commits", 2016-07-28) the format for referring to older commits was specified.is easier to read when pasted into a sentence than what the recent update 175d38ca ("SubmittingPatches: document how to reference previous commits", 2016-07-28) suggests to do, i.e.
While it may be easier to read due to the extra mark-up, the resulting text where such a quotation appears does not flow well, IMO. A commit message text that references another commit reads more fluently without the quotes around the summary line because the quoted text is not so much a quotation that must be marked, but a parenthetical statement.
I absolutely welcome the proposed change to gitk, because I always edit out the double-quotes.
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