From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: A tiny documentation patch Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:55:22 -0700 Message-ID: <7v1vnhbv1h.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20090810144419.GB24183@headley> <200908101659.28291.trast@student.ethz.ch> <4A812575.50105@drmicha.warpmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Thomas Rast , =?utf-8?B?xaB0xJtww6FuIE7Em21l?= =?utf-8?B?Yw==?= , git@vger.kernel.org To: Michael J Gruber X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 12 04:55:42 2009 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 1Mb404-0006tU-S1 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:55:41 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755766AbZHLCzc (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:55:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755753AbZHLCzc (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:55:32 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:59569 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754900AbZHLCzb (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:55:31 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEBA92686E; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:55:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E671626869; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:55:23 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 9A0011B6-86EB-11DE-9A05-AEF1826986A2-77302942!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Michael J Gruber writes: > In current next's Documentation/, we have 149 lines with `-- and 48 > lines with `\--. How is our policy regarding old AsciiDoc? We could drop support for AsciiDoc 7 after all mainstream distros stop shipping it. If the need to bend backwards in order to support it gets too much for us, we might be tempted to drop it sooner, but are we getting to that point? I hope not. > (read: volunteer) making these things uniform one way or the other, > depending which versions we want to support. Thanks. 150 does not sound too bad to classify between ones that should be em-dash and that should be double dashes.