On Tuesday 11 August 2009 01:09:32 Thomas Rast wrote: > So until we know for certain that they're not needed, I'd rather not > actively remove them. Admittedly, there are lots of instances of `-- > in the docs too, so making sure which way is "right" and then > replacing _all_ of them would probably be a nice cleanup. I'm not fully sure of the current situation, but if it, for instance, turns out that "--" gives an em-dash and "\--" gives two hyphens in a row, we'd only want to change the "--"'s to "\--" for things like command-line options, where an em-dash is totally inappropriate. If it's a sentence that is actually using an em-dash for another purpose, it is probably intentional and desirable to actually get an em-dash. Obviously we want consistency, but--as this sentence shows--there is a difference between an em-dash and a command-line option like --version. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html