From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
To: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Cc: "Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: A tiny documentation patch
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:01:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A812575.50105@drmicha.warpmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908101659.28291.trast@student.ethz.ch>
Thomas Rast venit, vidit, dixit 10.08.2009 16:59:
> Štěpán Němec wrote:
[...]
> [...]
>> -In mirror mode, enabled with `\--mirror`, the refs will not be stored
>> +In mirror mode, enabled with `--mirror`, the refs will not be stored
> [...]
>> -mode, furthermore, `git push` will always behave as if `\--mirror`
>> +mode, furthermore, `git push` will always behave as if `--mirror`
>
> While I'm not sure how far back you'd have to go to find an asciidoc
> that does need this escaping, it's definitely *not* a typo. In some
> instances, -- turns into em dashes.
>
> If you are seeing stray backslashes in the output (I don't), I suspect
> you are either running asciidoc 8.x but forgot to set ASCIIDOC8, or
> 8.4.1+ and are missing the patch 71c020c (Disable asciidoc 8.4.1+
> semantics for `{plus}` and friends, 2009-07-25).
[...]
In current next's Documentation/, we have 149 lines with `-- and 48
lines with `\--. How is our policy regarding old AsciiDoc? I suggest
(read: volunteer) making these things uniform one way or the other,
depending which versions we want to support.
Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-11 12:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-10 14:44 A tiny documentation patch Štěpán Němec
2009-08-10 14:59 ` Thomas Rast
2009-08-11 8:01 ` Michael J Gruber [this message]
2009-08-12 2:55 ` Junio C Hamano
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