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Re: A tiny documentation patch

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 12, 2009, 02:55 UTC
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Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
> In current next's Documentation/, we have 149 lines with `-- and 48
> lines with `\--. How is our policy regarding old AsciiDoc?

We could drop support for AsciiDoc 7 after all mainstream distros stop shipping it. If the need to bend backwards in order to support it gets too much for us, we might be tempted to drop it sooner, but are we getting to that point? I hope not.

> (read: volunteer) making these things uniform one way or the other,
> depending which versions we want to support.

Thanks. 150 does not sound too bad to classify between ones that should be em-dash and that should be double dashes.

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