Re: [PATCH v2] gitignore.txt: suggestions how to get literal # or ! at the beginning

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Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> I'd be slightly worried that we are hurting other people who do care and
> are on older versions of asciidoc. It would be nice if we actually knew
> the cause of the different behaviors we saw and if there was a way to
> work around it (it might not even be old asciidoc, but rather old
> docbook).
>
> Part of me wants to just take the change and see if anybody complains.
> But that is probably the wrong thing to do, and just my general
> frustration with our doc toolchain talking.

Yeah, I do not think we would want to introduce such a regression
especially when the proposed update is not the only (or best) way to
give us the intended benefit.  I think the "spell the character name
out" approach you showed in the other message was far more readable
anyway.

Thanks.
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