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authorDouwe Maan <douwe@selenight.nl>2016-04-27 23:38:33 +0200
committerDouwe Maan <douwe@selenight.nl>2016-07-09 21:23:05 -0400
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Add blockquote fence syntax to Markdown
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@@ -7,11 +7,12 @@
* [Newlines](#newlines)
* [Multiple underscores in words](#multiple-underscores-in-words)
* [URL auto-linking](#url-auto-linking)
+* [Multiline Blockquote](#multiline-blockquote)
* [Code and Syntax Highlighting](#code-and-syntax-highlighting)
* [Inline Diff](#inline-diff)
* [Emoji](#emoji)
* [Special GitLab references](#special-gitlab-references)
-* [Task lists](#task-lists)
+* [Task Lists](#task-lists)
**[Standard Markdown](#standard-markdown)**
@@ -89,6 +90,37 @@ GFM will autolink almost any URL you copy and paste into your text.
* irc://irc.freenode.net/gitlab
* http://localhost:3000
+## Multiline Blockquote
+
+On top of standard Markdown [blockquotes](#blockquotes), which require prepending `>` to quoted lines,
+GFM supports multiline blockquotes fenced by <code>>>></code>.
+
+```no-highlight
+>>>
+If you paste a message from somewhere else
+
+that
+
+spans
+
+multiple lines,
+
+you can quote that without having to manually prepend `>` to every line!
+>>>
+```
+
+>>>
+If you paste a message from somewhere else
+
+that
+
+spans
+
+multiple lines,
+
+you can quote that without having to manually prepend `>` to every line!
+>>>
+
## Code and Syntax Highlighting
_GitLab uses the [Rouge Ruby library][rouge] for syntax highlighting. For a