From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on archive.lwn.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.0 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by archive.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39EC17D2F0 for ; Fri, 31 May 2019 23:36:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726610AbfEaXgU (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 May 2019 19:36:20 -0400 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:37358 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726518AbfEaXgU (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 May 2019 19:36:20 -0400 Received: from lwn.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D10EA728; Fri, 31 May 2019 23:36:19 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 17:36:18 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Randy Dunlap Cc: Linus Torvalds , LKML , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] Rough draft document on merging and rebasing Message-ID: <20190531173618.465ae659@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <7979b995-6b03-783b-e3d7-0023fabc43bc@infradead.org> References: <20190530135317.3c8d0d7b@lwn.net> <7979b995-6b03-783b-e3d7-0023fabc43bc@infradead.org> Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 30 May 2019 17:45:23 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote: > On 5/30/19 12:53 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > + git merge v5.2-rc1^0 > > That line is presented in my email client (Thunderbird) as > > git merge v5.2-rc1{superscript 0} > > Could you escape/quote it to prevent that? So I'm a wee bit confused. That's a literal string that one needs to type to obtain the needed effect; if thunderbird is doing weird things with it, I think that the problem does not lie with the document...? What change would you have me make here? Thanks, jon