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[PATCH 1/2] Documentation/git-show-branch: drop last use of {apostrophe}

From
Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 5, 2019, 22:51 UTC
Message-ID
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In-Reply-To
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The {apostrophe} was needed at the time of a521845800 ("Documentation: remove stray backslash in show-branch discussion", 2010-08-20). All other uses of {apostrophe} were removed in 6cf378f0cb ("docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal", 2012-04-26).

Escape only the leading single-quote. This renders properly in asciidoc and asciidoctor.

Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
---

Maybe it would be easier to change the example commit messages and avoid having to nest single quotes within double quotes? I don't know if that's much preferable to escaping only the opening single quote.

I went with the more minimal change to avoid having to rewrite other bits of the example (and risk making them not match what users would see if they ran similar commands).

This is another potential parsing bug in asciidoctor. Of course, distros will have versions of asciidoctor in place for some time which have trouble parsing this doc. Since it's not much work for us to adjust the text to work around it, that seemed reasonable.

 Documentation/git-show-branch.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
index 4a01371227..5cc2fcefba 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ $ git show-branch master fixes mhf
 ------------------------------------------------
 
 These three branches all forked from a common commit, [master],
-whose commit message is "Add {apostrophe}git show-branch{apostrophe}".
+whose commit message is "Add \'git show-branch'".
 The "fixes" branch adds one commit "Introduce "reset type" flag to
 "git reset"". The "mhf" branch adds many other commits.
 The current branch is "master".
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  1. 0/2 minor asciidoc/tor formatting fixesTodd Zullinger, Mar 30, 2019
  2. 2/2 Documentation/git-status: fix titles in porcelain v2 sectionTodd Zullinger, Mar 30, 2019
  3. Jeff KingApr 1, 2019
  4. Todd ZullingerApr 5, 2019
  5. Jeff HostetlerApr 3, 2019
  6. Todd ZullingerApr 5, 2019
  7. 1/2 Documentation/rev-list-options: wrap --date=<format> block with "--"Todd Zullinger, Mar 30, 2019
  8. Jeff KingApr 1, 2019
  9. Todd ZullingerApr 5, 2019
  10. Martin ÅgrenApr 3, 2019
  11. Todd ZullingerApr 5, 2019
  12. Martin ÅgrenApr 5, 2019
  13. 0/2 a few more minor asciidoc/tor formatting fixesTodd Zullinger, Apr 5, 2019
  14. Martin ÅgrenApr 6, 2019
  15. 1/2 Documentation/git-show-branch: avoid literal {apostrophe}Todd Zullinger, Apr 10, 2019
  16. 2/2 Documentation/git-svn: improve asciidoctor compatibilityTodd Zullinger, Apr 10, 2019
  17. 0/2 a few more minor asciidoc/tor formatting fixesTodd Zullinger, Apr 10, 2019
  18. Junio C HamanoApr 10, 2019
  19. 1/2 Documentation/git-show-branch: drop last use of {apostrophe}Todd Zullinger, Apr 5, 2019
  20. Martin ÅgrenApr 6, 2019
  21. 2/2 Documentation/git-svn: improve asciidoctor compatibilityTodd Zullinger, Apr 5, 2019
  22. Martin ÅgrenApr 6, 2019
  23. Todd ZullingerApr 10, 2019

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