I am not sure why, but the regular expression "(?:\^\{\})" gets
rendered by asciidoc as "(?:\{})". The intent seems to be a regex
matching the literal string "^{}", so this rewrites the markup to
produce "(?:\^{})" as output.
Cc: Julian Phillips <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <redacted>
---
Documentation/asciidoc.conf | 1 +
Documentation/git-show-ref.txt | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
index 6be8ba3..b5f0f29 100644
--- a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
+++ b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ plus=+
caret=^
startsb=[
endsb=]
+backslash=\
tilde=~
apostrophe='
backtick=`
diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
index 75780d7..4696af7 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ OPTIONS
--exclude-existing[=<pattern>]::
Make 'git show-ref' act as a filter that reads refs from stdin of the
- form "^(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:\^\{\})?$" and performs the
- following actions on each:
+ form "^(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:{backslash}{caret}\{\})?$"
+ and performs the following actions on each:
(1) strip "^{}" at the end of line if any;
(2) ignore if pattern is provided and does not head-match refname;
(3) warn if refname is not a well-formed refname and skip;--
1.7.2.2.536.g42dab.dirty