From: Matthieu Moy Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 11:40:14 +0000 (+0200) Subject: CodingGuidelines: formatting HEAD in documentation X-Git-Tag: v2.9.3~56^2~1 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=57103dbf702557abefc7c8c4578145f9383d6e9d;p=thirdparty%2Fgit.git CodingGuidelines: formatting HEAD in documentation The current practice is: git/Documentation$ git grep "'HEAD'" | wc -l 24 git/Documentation$ git grep "\`HEAD\`" | wc -l 66 Let's adopt the majority as a guideline. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines index 7f4769a02c..4cd95da6b1 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines @@ -527,12 +527,13 @@ Writing Documentation: or commands: Literal examples (e.g. use of command-line options, command names, - configuration and environment variables) must be typeset in monospace (i.e. - wrapped with backticks): + branch names, configuration and environment variables) must be + typeset in monospace (i.e. wrapped with backticks): `--pretty=oneline` `git rev-list` `remote.pushDefault` `GIT_DIR` + `HEAD` An environment variable must be prefixed with "$" only when referring to its value and not when referring to the variable itself, in this case there is