Re: A tiny documentation patch

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Thomas Rast venit, vidit, dixit 10.08.2009 16:59:
> Štěpán Němec wrote:
[...]
> [...]
>> -In mirror mode, enabled with `\--mirror`, the refs will not be stored
>> +In mirror mode, enabled with `--mirror`, the refs will not be stored
> [...]
>> -mode, furthermore, `git push` will always behave as if `\--mirror`
>> +mode, furthermore, `git push` will always behave as if `--mirror`
> 
> While I'm not sure how far back you'd have to go to find an asciidoc
> that does need this escaping, it's definitely *not* a typo.  In some
> instances, -- turns into em dashes.
> 
> If you are seeing stray backslashes in the output (I don't), I suspect
> you are either running asciidoc 8.x but forgot to set ASCIIDOC8, or
> 8.4.1+ and are missing the patch 71c020c (Disable asciidoc 8.4.1+
> semantics for `{plus}` and friends, 2009-07-25).
[...]

In current next's Documentation/, we have 149 lines with `-- and 48
lines with `\--. How is our policy regarding old AsciiDoc? I suggest
(read: volunteer) making these things uniform one way or the other,
depending which versions we want to support.

Michael
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