Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] doc: git-config: escape erroneous highlight markup

> On Thu, Jun 11, 2026 at 02:11:57AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> > Though curiously the case of `#` in git-fast-import seems not to get
> > marked as <code> in the html output (even though the nearby `LF` does).
> > I wonder if there is some special treatment of `#` or something.
> 
> Ah, weird, it has to do with our config file.
> 
> If I do this (not in the git repository):
> 
>   echo 'This is a literal `#` symbol.' >foo.adoc
>   asciidoc foo.adoc
>   grep -i symbol foo.html
> 
> then I get <code> markers, like:
> 
>   <div class="paragraph"><p>This is a literal <code>#</code> symbol.</p></div>
> 
> But if I build with:
> 
>   asciidoc -f path/to/git/Documentation/asciidoc.conf foo.adoc
> 
> then the grep shows:
> 
>   <div class="paragraph"><p>This is a literal # symbol.</p></div>
> 
> Looks like it is due to our [literal-inlinemacro] definition, which
> comes from 974cdca345 (doc: introduce a synopsis typesetting,
> 2024-09-24). I think this might have been an unintended side effect.
> +cc the author of that commit.
> 
> For the purposes of your series, I think we can ignore any issues with
> [literal-inlinemacro] for the moment, and decide on "\" versus ``
> depending on which we prefer.
> 
> -Peff