git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: [PATCH] documentation: escape '~' in git revert

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 2, 2010, 17:50 UTC
Message-ID
<20101202175013.GF3962@burratino>
In-Reply-To
<1291311393-31843-1-git-send-email-sylvain.rabot@f-secure.com>
Hi,
Sylvain Rabot wrote:
> backslashing '~' characters do not have any effect, quoting with +++ has.
Odd.  The first example already looks okay here.
> +++ b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
[...]
> -git revert -n master\~5..master~2::
> +git revert -n master+++~+++5..master+++~+++2::

Please use the {tilde} entity instead of +++, since the former (1) does not make text monospace and (2) works with older asciidoc.

Good catch, thanks.
Previous: Sylvain RabotNext: Junio C Hamano
Message 2 of 7 in “documentation: escape '~' in git revert”
  1. documentation: escape '~' in git revertSylvain Rabot, Dec 2, 2010
  2. Jonathan NiederDec 2, 2010
  3. Junio C HamanoDec 2, 2010
  4. Jonathan NiederDec 2, 2010
  5. Junio C HamanoDec 2, 2010
  6. documentation: replace wrongly evalutated backslashed '~' charactersSylvain Rabot, Dec 2, 2010
  7. Junio C HamanoDec 2, 2010

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.