On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 08:56:05PM +0100, Martin Ågren wrote:
> When we write `<name>`s with the "s" tucked on to the closing backtick,
> we end up rendering the backticks literally. Rephrase this sentence
> slightly to render this as monospace.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
> ---
>  doc-diff:
>  --- a/.../man/man1/git.1
>  +++ b/.../man/man1/git.1
>  @@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ OPTIONS
>              setting the value to an empty string, instead the environment
>              variable itself must be set to the empty string. It is an error if
>              the <envvar> does not exist in the environment.  <envvar> may not
>  -           contain an equals sign to avoid ambiguity with `<name>`s which
>  -           contain one.
>  +           contain an equals sign to avoid ambiguity with <name> containing
>  +           one.

Over here you're also dropping the backticks, while...

>              This is useful for cases where you want to pass transitory
>              configuration options to git, but are doing so on OS’s where other
>  Documentation/git.txt | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
> index d36e6fd482..3a9c44987f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git.txt
> @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ foo.bar= ...`) sets `foo.bar` to the empty string which `git config
>  	empty string, instead the environment variable itself must be
>  	set to the empty string.  It is an error if the `<envvar>` does not exist
>  	in the environment. `<envvar>` may not contain an equals sign
> -	to avoid ambiguity with `<name>`s which contain one.
> +	to avoid ambiguity with `<name>` containing one.

... here you don't. Is this on purpose?

Patrick

>  This is useful for cases where you want to pass transitory
>  configuration options to git, but are doing so on OS's where
> -- 
> 2.30.0.284.gd98b1dd5ea
>