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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Cc: "'Nicholas Bransby-Williams'" <nbransby@gmail.com>,
	<git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: conflict markers in markdown files
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 22:08:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq5ytgo1u2.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00c601d7cc53$0ce58800$26b09800$@nexbridge.com> (rsbecker@nexbridge.com's message of "Thu, 28 Oct 2021 19:25:04 -0400")

<rsbecker@nexbridge.com> writes:

> It sounds like we might need an attribute like:
>
> *.md	conflict-marker-size=32,conflict-marker-separator='~'
>
> to stick 32 ~ characters as a separator, if going down that path. I'm not
> sure how hard this would be, but tooling other systems, like JGit and every
> client on the planet would be painful.

Well, the underline-style markdown headers can use tilde for headers
below the level that uses hyphens, so you'd need to pick a different
separator letter ;-).  I agree that third-party application would
have trouble with an arbitrary setting of the marker appearance
(note that our own "rerere" knows about the attribute).

      reply	other threads:[~2021-10-29  5:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-28 14:00 conflict markers in markdown files Nicholas Bransby-Williams
2021-10-28 15:38 ` Philip Oakley
2021-10-28 19:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-10-28 20:33   ` Nicholas Bransby-Williams
2021-10-28 22:28     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-10-28 22:49       ` Nicholas Bransby-Williams
2021-10-28 23:11         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-10-28 23:25           ` rsbecker
2021-10-29  5:08             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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