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Re: Documentation/user-manual.txt, asciidoc and "--" escapes

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 15, 2008, 12:07 UTC
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"Piotr Findeisen" <piotr.findeisen@gmail.com> writes:
> However, this seems a bit messy -- fighting against asciidoc instead
> of using it as it's designed to be used. IMHO, it's better to
> explicitly escape non-punctuation "--" with "\" and write punctuation
> "--" with spaces on both sides.
Thanks for digging.  I agree with that.
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