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Jean-Noël Avila 227c4f33a0 doc: add a blank line around block delimiters
The documentation is using the historical mode for titles, which is a
setext-style (i.e., two-line) section title.

The issue with this mode is that starting block delimiters (e.g.,
`----`) can be confused with a section title when they are exactly the
same length as the preceding line. In the original documentation, this
is taken care of for English by the writer, but it is not the case for
translations where these delimiters are hidden. A translator can
generate a line that is exactly the same length as the following block
delimiter, which leads to this line being considered as a title.

To safeguard against this issue, add a blank line before and after
block delimiters where block is at root level, else add a "+" line
before block delimiters to link it to the preceding paragraph.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-03-10 09:58:06 -07:00

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Tools for developing Git
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[[summary]]
== Summary
This document gathers tips, scripts, and configuration files to help people
working on Git's codebase use their favorite tools while following Git's
coding style.
[[author]]
=== Author
The Git community.
[[table_of_contents]]
== Table of contents
- <<vscode>>
- <<emacs>>
[[vscode]]
=== Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
The contrib/vscode/init.sh script creates configuration files that enable
several valuable VS Code features. See contrib/vscode/README.md for more
information on using the script.
[[emacs]]
=== Emacs
This is adapted from Linux's suggestion in its CodingStyle document:
- To follow the rules in CodingGuidelines, it's useful to put the following in
GIT_CHECKOUT/.dir-locals.el, assuming you use cperl-mode:
----
;; note the first part is useful for C editing, too
((nil . ((indent-tabs-mode . t)
(tab-width . 8)
(fill-column . 80)))
(cperl-mode . ((cperl-indent-level . 8)
(cperl-extra-newline-before-brace . nil)
(cperl-merge-trailing-else . t))))
----
For a more complete setup, since Git's codebase uses a coding style
similar to the Linux kernel's style, tips given in Linux's CodingStyle
document can be applied here too.
==== https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.html#you-ve-made-a-mess-of-it