Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Note that this produces an empty doc-diff of the manpages. Curiously, > asciidoc produces the same ellipsis entity in the XML file, but docbook > then converts it back into three literal dots for the roff output! So > the roff manpages have been correct all along (which may be a reason > nobody noticed this until now). Hilarious. I just checked with "man -l -Tps" and it does seem to throw literal three dots in the PostScript. > Reported-by: Arthur Milchior > Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> > --- > This was originally reported via https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/issues/1700, > hence no email address for the reporter. I'm not sure if that makes it > too useless to keep, but I mostly wanted to give credit. I wonder if it is the same person as <pull.1280.git.git.1655927444821.gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> Anyway, thanks, both ;-) > > Documentation/revisions.txt | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt > index f5f17b65a1..cef8c3c66f 100644 > --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt > +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt > @@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ The '..' (two-dot) Range Notation:: > for commits that are reachable from r2 excluding those that are reachable > from r1 by '{caret}r1 r2' and it can be written as 'r1..r2'. > > -The '...' (three-dot) Symmetric Difference Notation:: > +The '\...' (three-dot) Symmetric Difference Notation:: > A similar notation 'r1\...r2' is called symmetric difference > of 'r1' and 'r2' and is defined as > 'r1 r2 --not $(git merge-base --all r1 r2)'.
