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Re: [RFC/PATCH 00/17] unexpected backslashes in man pages

From
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date
Aug 23, 2010, 11:51 UTC
Message-ID
<201008231351.01826.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To
<20100820101902.GA10356@burratino>
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
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> This series is longer than I would like, and I am not happy to
> impose the review burden.  So if something does not look obviously
> correct at a glance, please let me know and I'll try to simplify it.
> 
> The topic: as Frédéric Brière noticed in
> <http://bugs.debian.org/540001>, various man pages have collected
> backslashes where they don't belong.

Apart from 13/17 which I was too lazy to fix manually, I have looked through all the results. The patches fix a lot of stray backslashes, exactly as claimed. For the record, this is on asciidoc 8.4.5 with ASCIIDOC8=1 ASCIIDOC_NO_ROFF=1 GNU_ROFF=1.

I did some random checking on a box with asciidoc 8.2.7, which is the oldest that I have at hand. It seems to fix the issues there, too; in any case I didn't find any of the regressions that I wanted to check for.

So,
  Acked-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
for the series.
-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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Message 22 of 22 in “unexpected backslashes in man pages”
  1. 00/17 unexpected backslashes in man pagesJonathan Nieder, Aug 20, 2010
  2. 01/17 Documentation: tweak description of log.dateJonathan Nieder, Aug 20, 2010
  3. 02/17 Documentation: quoting trouble in "git rm" discussionJonathan Nieder, Aug 20, 2010
  4. 03/17 Documentation: unbreak regex in show-ref manualJonathan Nieder, Aug 20, 2010
  5. 04/17 Documentation: clarify quoting in "git add" exampleJonathan Nieder, Aug 20, 2010
  6. 05/17 Documentation: add missing quotes to "git grep" examplesJonathan Nieder, Aug 20, 2010
  7. 06/17 Documentation: clarify quoting in "git rm" exampleJonathan Nieder, Aug 20, 2010
  8. 07/17 Documentation: clarify quoting in gitignore docsJonathan Nieder, Aug 20, 2010
  9. 08/17 Documentation: remove backslashes in manpage synopsesJonathan Nieder, Aug 20, 2010
  10. 09/17 Documentation/technical: avoid stray backslash in parse-options API docsJonathan Nieder, Aug 20, 2010
  11. 10/17 Documentation: remove stray backslash from "git bundle" manualJonathan Nieder, Aug 20, 2010
  12. 11/17 Documentation: remove backslash before ~ in fast-import manualJonathan Nieder, Aug 20, 2010
  13. 12/17 Documentation: remove stray backslashes in rev-parse manualJonathan Nieder, Aug 20, 2010
  14. 13/17 Documentation: remove stray backslash in show-branch discussionJonathan Nieder, Aug 20, 2010
  15. Thomas RastAug 23, 2010
  16. Ramkumar RamachandraAug 23, 2010
  17. Jonathan NiederAug 23, 2010
  18. 14/17 Documentation: avoid stray backslashes in core tutorialJonathan Nieder, Aug 20, 2010
  19. 15/17 Documentation: avoid stray backslash in user manualJonathan Nieder, Aug 20, 2010
  20. 16/17 Documentation: do not convert ... operator to ellipsesJonathan Nieder, Aug 20, 2010
  21. 17/17 Documentation: remove stray backslashes from "Fighting regressions" articleJonathan Nieder, Aug 20, 2010
  22. Thomas RastAug 23, 2010

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