Re: [PATCH 0/3] shortlog: do not accept revisions when run outside repo

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mar 28, 2018, 08:48 UTC
Message-ID: <20180328084839.GA31002@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <cover.1520680894.git.martin.agren@gmail.com>

On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 12:52:09PM +0100, Martin Ågren wrote:

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> Someone trying this out might notice that `man git-shortlog` renders
> "\--" as "\--", which is not wanted. (Also visible on git-scm.com...)
> There is quite some history around such double-slashes and compatibility
> with AsciiDoc-versions, so I'd rather not do a "while at it" there.
> Regardless of the destiny of patch 1/3, I will follow up later to
> address various forms of "\--" throughout the tree.

I didn't see any follow-up here, but in case you were delaying because the history search seemed boring: dropping the backslash is the right thing to do. See the discussion in 1c262bb7b2 (doc: convert \--option to --option, 2015-05-13).

-Peff