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[v4,1/8] pretty-formats: define "literal formatting code"

Message ID 20230820085336.8615-2-andy.koppe@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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Series pretty: add %(decorate[:<options>]) format | expand

Commit Message

Andy Koppe Aug. 20, 2023, 8:53 a.m. UTC 
From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

The description for a %(trailer) option already uses this term without
having a definition anywhere in the document, and we are about to add
another one in %(decorate) that uses it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com>
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 Documentation/pretty-formats.txt | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
index 3b71334459..5e1432951b 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
@@ -122,7 +122,9 @@  The placeholders are:
 - Placeholders that expand to a single literal character:
 '%n':: newline
 '%%':: a raw '%'
-'%x00':: print a byte from a hex code
+'%x00':: '%x' followed by two hexadecimal digits is replaced with a
+	 byte with the hexadecimal digits' value (we will call this
+	 "literal formatting code" in the rest of this document).
 
 - Placeholders that affect formatting of later placeholders:
 '%Cred':: switch color to red