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authorJonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>2011-06-29 00:35:10 -0500
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-06-29 09:24:26 -0700
commit565e135a1e5fc393f764415a4724f43cc07f4da6 (patch)
tree4d8a05ac35ee815ad4c489d004f14d891ade6b0c /Documentation
parentcdb791f61d71db24fa54363ff6d4b42a46ebbdf1 (diff)
downloadgit-565e135a1e5fc393f764415a4724f43cc07f4da6.tar.gz
Documentation: quote double-dash for AsciiDoc
AsciiDoc versions since 5.0.6 treat a double-dash surrounded by spaces (outside of verbatim environments) as a request to insert an em dash. Such versions also treat the three-character sequence "\--", when not followed by another dash, as a request to insert two literal minus signs. Thus from time to time there have been patches to add backslashes to AsciiDoc markup to escape double-dashes that are meant to be represent '--' characters used literally on the command line; see v1.4.0-rc1~174, Fix up docs where "--" isn't displayed correctly, 2006-05-05, for example. AsciiDoc 6.0.3 (2005-04-20) made life harder by also treating double-dashes without surrounding whitespace as markup for an em dash, though only when formatting for backends other than the manpages (e.g., HTML). Many pages needed to be changed to use a backslash before the "--" in names of command-line flags like "--add" (see v0.99.6~37, Update tutorial, 2005-08-30). AsciiDoc 8.3.0 (2008-11-29) refined the em-dash rule to avoid that requirement. Double-dashes without surrounding spaces are not rendered as em dashes any more unless bordered on both sides by alphanumeric characters. The unescaped markup for option names (e.g., "--add") works fine, and many instances of this style have leaked into Documentation/; git's HTML documentation contains many spurious em dashes when formatted by an older toolchain. (This patch will not change that.) The upshot: "--" as an isolated word and in phrases like "git web--browse" must be escaped if it is not to be rendered as an em dash by current asciidoc. Use "\--" to avoid such misformatting in sentences in which "--" represents a literal double-minus command line argument that separates options and revs from pathspecs, and use "{litdd}" in cases where the double-dash is embedded in the command name. The latter is just for consistency with v1.7.3-rc0~13^2 (Work around em-dash handling in newer AsciiDoc, 2010-08-23). List of lines to fix found by grepping manpages for "(em". Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Improved-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-commit.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-mergetool--lib.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-revert.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-submodule.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-web--browse.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/rev-list-options.txt2
7 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 6babbc7837..c2ba535a0d 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ branch.<name>.rebase::
browser.<tool>.cmd::
Specify the command to invoke the specified browser. The
specified command is evaluated in shell with the URLs passed
- as arguments. (See linkgit:git-web--browse[1].)
+ as arguments. (See linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1].)
browser.<tool>.path::
Override the path for the given tool that may be used to
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index 8f89f6f08c..b9aa220db8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ When recording your own work, the contents of modified files in
your working tree are temporarily stored to a staging area
called the "index" with 'git add'. A file can be
reverted back, only in the index but not in the working tree,
-to that of the last commit with `git reset HEAD -- <file>`,
+to that of the last commit with `git reset HEAD \-- <file>`,
which effectively reverts 'git add' and prevents the changes to
this file from participating in the next commit. After building
the state to be committed incrementally with these commands,
diff --git a/Documentation/git-mergetool--lib.txt b/Documentation/git-mergetool--lib.txt
index d8df55362c..1441aec242 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-mergetool--lib.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mergetool--lib.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-mergetool--lib - Common git merge tool shell scriptlets
SYNOPSIS
--------
-'TOOL_MODE=(diff|merge) . "$(git --exec-path)/git-mergetool--lib"'
+'TOOL_MODE=(diff|merge) . "$(git --exec-path)/git-mergetool{litdd}lib"'
DESCRIPTION
-----------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-revert.txt b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
index 752fc88e76..ab994abdbd 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-revert.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ throw away all uncommitted changes in your working directory, you
should see linkgit:git-reset[1], particularly the '--hard' option. If
you want to extract specific files as they were in another commit, you
should see linkgit:git-checkout[1], specifically the `git checkout
-<commit> -- <filename>` syntax. Take care with these alternatives as
+<commit> \-- <filename>` syntax. Take care with these alternatives as
both will discard uncommitted changes in your working directory.
OPTIONS
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index e8ed2f2c0f..1649b9fee9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ sync::
repositories accordingly.
+
"git submodule sync" synchronizes all submodules while
-"git submodule sync -- A" synchronizes submodule "A" only.
+"git submodule sync \-- A" synchronizes submodule "A" only.
OPTIONS
-------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt b/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt
index c0416e5e1a..a7b1201bbb 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ browser.<tool>.path
You can explicitly provide a full path to your preferred browser by
setting the configuration variable 'browser.<tool>.path'. For example,
you can configure the absolute path to firefox by setting
-'browser.firefox.path'. Otherwise, 'git web--browse' assumes the tool
+'browser.firefox.path'. Otherwise, 'git web{litdd}browse' assumes the tool
is available in PATH.
browser.<tool>.cmd
diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index a9de9a74dc..97fd1d0e90 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ that you are filtering for a file `foo` in this commit graph:
\ / / / /
`-------------'
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-The horizontal line of history A--P is taken to be the first parent of
+The horizontal line of history A---P is taken to be the first parent of
each merge. The commits are:
* `I` is the initial commit, in which `foo` exists with contents