Re: [PATCH 1/4] git-column.txt: fix section header

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Dec 16, 2018, 10:51 UTC
Message-ID: <20181216105123.GD13704@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20181215112742.1475882-2-martin.agren@gmail.com>

On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 12:27:39PM +0100, Martin Ågren wrote:

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> We have too few dashes under "Examples", which causes Asciidoctor to not
> pick it up as a section header, but to instead just render the dashes
> literally. This also seems to confuse Asciidoctor about dashes in
> general around here. It misinterprets the listing blocks in this
> section, again rendering the dashes literally.
> 
> Make sure we have as many dashes as we have characters in "Examples".
> This fixes the section-issue and, somehow, makes the listing blocks
> render correctly.

Yeah, the mis-matched title-and-dashes thing has bitten us several times. I think this one just post-dates the last round of fixing.

The "somehow" here is that the mismatched dashes appear to be the start of a code listing block, making the whole example section into one big listing (which isn't properly closed, generating a warning).

And that's why in the context:

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>  EXAMPLES
> -------
> +--------
>  
>  Format data by columns:
>  ------------

We _don't_ need to match up the dashes for "Format data...". That is meant to be a listing block (and arguably should use a shorter string of dashes to make that intent more obvious).

-Peff