Subject: Re: bug#10547: [PATCH] maint: quote 'like this' or "like this", not `like this'

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:58:06 +0100

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Here's a proposed patch to have coreutils quote 'like this'
> (or "like this") more consistently, instead of quoting
> `like this'.
>
>
> * doc/coreutils.texi (Formatting the file names):
> coreutils now quotes 'like this'.
> * man/help2man:
> * src/timeout.c (usage): Quote 'like this' in diagnostics.
> * HACKING, Makefile.am, NEWS, README, README-hacking, TODO, cfg.mk:
> * doc/Makefile.am, doc/coreutils.texi, m4/jm-macros.m4:
> * man/Makefile.am, man/help2man, src/Makefile.am, src/copy.h:
> * src/extract-magic, src/ls.c, src/pinky.c, src/pr.c, src/sort.c:
> * src/split.c, src/timeout.c, src/who.c, tests/dd/skip-seek-past-file:
> * tests/pr/pr-tests: Quote 'like this' in commentary.

Thanks for all the clean-up.
Since you've modified old NEWS, you'll
find that "make syntax-check" fails until you
reset the SHA1 of the old NEWS entries.
To do that, just run "make update-NEWS-hash".
That updates the SHA1 in cfg.mk.

ACK, assuming "make distcheck" (which does run syntax-check) still passes.