Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> As explained in v1.7.3-rc0~13^2 (Work around em-dash handling in newer
> AsciiDoc, 2010-08-23), outside of verbatim environments, newish
> versions of AsciiDoc will convert double hyphens to en dashes. Use
> the litdd syntax introduced by that patch to avoid such misformatting
> in sentences where "--" represents the two-character "end of options"
> argument that separates revision names from filename patterns.
Thanks.
This looks very bad:
$ cd $git/share/man
$ grep -l '(em ' */*.?
even though we do want em-dash for some hits in the above output. And
even worse, there seem to be exceptions to this rule, like ...
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-revert.txt b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
> index ac10cfbb..a516d577 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-revert.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ throw away all uncommitted changes in your working directory, you
> should see linkgit:git-reset[1], particularly the '--hard' option. If
... the one before "hard" above.
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