From: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2026 14:14:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] doc lint fixes for pack-refs and refs
Message-ID: <20260913141405.Dcx5xbe-@teonanacatl.net>
In-Reply-To: <Uds1uZlUTZi1p6vFK4zhWg@free.fr>

Hi,

Jean-Noël AVILA wrote:
> When I put this linting in place, I was specifically targeting the options. 
> The other cases of use of definition list could range from commands to real 
> definitions of words (see gitglossary.adoc and git-add.adoc), and extending 
> the match can trigger false positives. Backticked terms are supposed to be 
> immutable for translators, so this formatting should not be used for real 
> definitions. 
> For this reason, the regex is restricted on purpose, but selecting the files 
> to check to allow to extend the range of checks.
> , 
> FWIW, the proposed change triggers false positives for git-add.adoc, git-
> push.adoc, git-difftool.adoc, git-daemon.adoc and git-fetch.adoc.

That's fine, I don't mind dropping that patch if the false
positives will be more annoying than skipping the checks for
commands and missing some of them.

I'll wait a little before sending a re-roll with that
dropped, in case anyone spots issues in the main patches to
the pack-refs and refs docs.

Thanks,

-- 
Todd