From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 01:01:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RESEND] Escape some tilde characters causing spurious subscripts in documentation
Message-ID: <7vhcoy2mj3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <11826426733115-git-send-email-jasonsewall@gmail.com>

Jason Sewall <jasonsewall@gmail.com> writes:

> diff --git a/Documentation/git-bundle.txt b/Documentation/git-bundle.txt
> index 5051e2b..d89f350 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-bundle.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-bundle.txt
> @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ unbundle <file>::
>  [git-rev-list-args...]::
>         A list of arguments, acceptable to git-rev-parse and
>         git-rev-list, that specify the specific objects and references
> -       to transport.  For example, "master~10..master" causes the
> +       to transport.  For example, "master\~10..master" causes the
>         current master reference to be packaged along with all objects
>         added since its 10th ancestor commit.  There is no explicit
>         limit to the number of references and objects that may be

We seem to have {tilde} defined in Documentation/asciidoc.conf.
I wonder which is better.  We should pick one that gives more
reasonable format, and is less susceptible to differences
between AsciiDoc 7 and 8.