From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jidanni@jidanni.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-format-patch.txt: fix weird backslash at --root Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:36:21 +0800 Message-ID: <877i5ljlei.fsf@jidanni.org> References: <7v4p0pcliy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: gitster@pobox.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Dec 27 23:42:55 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LGhry-0002kS-L9 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:42:55 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752575AbYL0Wg0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:36:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751588AbYL0Wg0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:36:26 -0500 Received: from mailbigip.dreamhost.com ([208.97.132.5]:36058 "EHLO homiemail-a2.g.dreamhost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751168AbYL0Wg0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:36:26 -0500 Received: from jidanni.org (122-127-33-180.dynamic.hinet.net [122.127.33.180]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by homiemail-a2.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D70CD270A; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 14:36:23 -0800 (PST) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: JCH> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-format-patch.html That looks OK. All I know is on Debian (1:1.5.6.5-2) it gets rendered: $ w3m -dump /usr/share/doc/git-doc/git-format-patch.html|fgrep \\- $ git format-patch \--root origin I was patching offline from Debian. OK, in the future I will clone upstream directly properly first.