Hi, Jeff King wrote: > The description for the "-t" option contains a sub-list of all of the > possible file status outputs. But because of the newline separating that > list from the description paragraph, asciidoc treats the sub-list > entries as a continuation of the overall options list, rather than as > children of the "-t" description. > > We could fix it by adding a "+" before the sub-list to connect it to the > rest of the "-t" text. But using a pair of "--" to delimit the block is > perhaps more readable, and may have better compatibility with > asciidoctor, as in 39a869b2f2 (Documentation/rev-list-options: wrap > --date=<format> block with "--", 2019-03-30). > > The extra blank line comes from 5bc0e247c4 (Document ls-files -t as > semi-obsolete., 2010-07-28), but the problem actually seems older than > that. Before then, we did: > > -t:: some text... > H:: cached > M:: unmerged > etc... > > but asciidoc also treats that as one big list. So this problem seems to > have been around forever. > > Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> > --- > Junio: I happened to notice this while hunting for "ls-files" options > that could make your makefile de-dup patch unnecessary (but > didn't find anything). > > Todd: Just an FYI that your "--" strategy is spreading. :) Heh, cool. This is an obviously simple fix, but for good measure I checked the results with asciidoc 8.6.10 as well as asciidoctor 1.5.6 and 2.0.8. The output from each of them looks good. -- Todd
