Re: [PATCH] Documentation: remove '\' from front of options in githooks doc

From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Date: Sep 30, 2008, 17:21 UTC
Message-ID: <20080930172155.GJ6941@neumann>
In-Reply-To: <200809301756.41518.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Hi Thomas,

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 05:56:32PM +0200, Thomas Rast wrote:

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> This must be checked against older asciidocs to verify that it does
> not turn the unescaped sequence -- into an em-dash.  The \-- traces
> back to e1ccf53 ([PATCH] Escape asciidoc's built-in em-dash
> replacement, 2005-09-12), which indicates that it _was_ a problem in
> the past.  (The asciidoc 8.2.5 on my system does not use an em-dash in
> either case.)

Indeed, now that I look more closely, I had those '\' characters only in front of short options in the outputs.

However, it worth noting that there are plenty other places where the double dash in long options are not escaped with a '\'.

> ACK on all single-dash cases though, which are indeed wrong and were
> apparently introduced later in 8089c85 (git-commit: add a
> prepare-commit-msg hook, 2008-02-05).

I will send a corrected patch shortly.

Thanks, Gábor