Re: [PATCH v2] gitignore.txt: suggestions how to get literal # or ! at the beginning

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 6, 2012, 18:25 UTC
Message-ID: <7vr4pbqwz7.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20121006154036.GA14119@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> I'd be slightly worried that we are hurting other people who do care and
> are on older versions of asciidoc. It would be nice if we actually knew
> the cause of the different behaviors we saw and if there was a way to
> work around it (it might not even be old asciidoc, but rather old
> docbook).
>
> Part of me wants to just take the change and see if anybody complains.
> But that is probably the wrong thing to do, and just my general
> frustration with our doc toolchain talking.

Yeah, I do not think we would want to introduce such a regression especially when the proposed update is not the only (or best) way to give us the intended benefit. I think the "spell the character name out" approach you showed in the other message was far more readable anyway.

Thanks.