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Re: [PATCH] Documentation: quote double-dash in "<commit> -- <filename>" for AsciiDoc

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jun 28, 2011, 22:47 UTC
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<20110628224717.GC4192@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:17:49PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
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> As explained in v1.7.3-rc0~13^2 (Work around em-dash handling in newer
> AsciiDoc, 2010-08-23), outside of verbatim environments, newish
> versions of AsciiDoc will convert double hyphens to en dashes.  Use
> the litdd syntax introduced by that patch to avoid such misformatting
> in sentences where "--" represents the two-character "end of options"
> argument that separates revision names from filename patterns.

Ugh. I just did a similar thing for "->". I really wish asciidoc would not expand symbols inside backticks in paragraph mode.

> -to that of the last commit with `git reset HEAD -- <file>`,
> +to that of the last commit with `git reset HEAD {litdd} <file>`,

Does \-- work? That seems way more readable to me for people viewing the source.

-Peff
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  1. Documentation: quote double-dash in "<commit> -- <filename>" for AsciiDocJonathan Nieder, Jun 28, 2011
  2. Junio C HamanoJun 28, 2011
  3. Jonathan NiederJun 29, 2011
  4. Jeff KingJun 28, 2011
  5. 0/2 Documentation: quote double-dash for AsciiDocJonathan Nieder, Jun 29, 2011
  6. 1/2 Documentation: quote double-dash for AsciiDocJonathan Nieder, Jun 29, 2011
  7. 2/2 Documentation/i18n: quote double-dash for AsciiDocJonathan Nieder, Jun 29, 2011
  8. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 29, 2011
  9. fixup! Documentation/i18n: quote double-dash for AsciiDocJonathan Nieder, Jun 29, 2011

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