Re: [PATCH] Documentation: quote double-dash in "<commit> -- <filename>" for AsciiDoc

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 28, 2011, 21:22 UTC
Message-ID: <7vaad1tzve.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110628171748.GA11485@elie>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

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> As explained in v1.7.3-rc0~13^2 (Work around em-dash handling in newer
> AsciiDoc, 2010-08-23), outside of verbatim environments, newish
> versions of AsciiDoc will convert double hyphens to en dashes.  Use
> the litdd syntax introduced by that patch to avoid such misformatting
> in sentences where "--" represents the two-character "end of options"
> argument that separates revision names from filename patterns.

Thanks.

This looks very bad:

    $ cd $git/share/man
    $ grep -l '(em ' */*.?

even though we do want em-dash for some hits in the above output. And even worse, there seem to be exceptions to this rule, like ...

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> diff --git a/Documentation/git-revert.txt b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
> index ac10cfbb..a516d577 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-revert.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ throw away all uncommitted changes in your working directory, you
>  should see linkgit:git-reset[1], particularly the '--hard' option.  If

... the one before "hard" above.