Re: [PATCH] Documentation: quote double-dash in "<commit> -- <filename>" for AsciiDoc

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On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:17:49PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> 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.

Ugh. I just did a similar thing for "->". I really wish asciidoc would
not expand symbols inside backticks in paragraph mode.

> -to that of the last commit with `git reset HEAD -- <file>`,
> +to that of the last commit with `git reset HEAD {litdd} <file>`,

Does \-- work? That seems way more readable to me for people viewing the
source.

-Peff
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