On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 01:02:52PM +0200, Andrei Rybak wrote:
> Three hyphens are rendered verbatim, so "--" has to be used to produce a
> dash. There is no double arrow ("<->" is rendered as "<→"), so a left
> and right arrow "<-->" have to be combined for that.
>
> So fix asciidoc output for special characters. This is similar to fixes
> in commit de82095a95 (doc hash-function-transition: fix asciidoc output,
> 2021-02-05).
Thanks. I looked at the doc-diff output before and after this patch, and
they both seem like strict improvements.
The double-arrow thing is kind of weird to me in the first place,
though. I suspect it might be more clear if it just spelled out what it
is trying to say with words. Something like:
The pruning feature doesn't actually care about branches. Instead, it
will prune local refs tracking remote ones as a function of...
But I'm OK to leave that to do on top; the current code simply renders
incorrectly, and your patch is fixing that.
-Peff
