Re: [PATCH v2] gitignore.txt: suggestions how to get literal # or ! at the beginning

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Oct 6, 2012, 15:40 UTC
Message-ID: <20121006154036.GA14119@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1349531484-5938-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 08:51:24PM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

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> We support backslash escape, but we hide the details behind the phrase
> "a shell glob suitable for consumption by fnmatch(3)". So it may not
> be obvious how one can get literal # or ! at the beginning of pattern.
> Add a few lines on how to work around the magic characters.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
> ---
>  On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>  > It works fine for me with asciidoc 8.6.7. <sigh>
> 
>  8.6.5 works. I don't care deeply as I read .txt anyway. Here it goes
>  again with examples.

I'd be slightly worried that we are hurting other people who do care and are on older versions of asciidoc. It would be nice if we actually knew the cause of the different behaviors we saw and if there was a way to work around it (it might not even be old asciidoc, but rather old docbook).

Part of me wants to just take the change and see if anybody complains. But that is probably the wrong thing to do, and just my general frustration with our doc toolchain talking.

-Peff