Re: [PATCH] Documentation: quote double-dash in "<commit> -- <filename>" for AsciiDoc
From: Jeff King <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:51:31
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:17:49PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
As explained in v1.7.3-rc0~13^2 (Work around em-dash handling in newer AsciiDoc, 2010-08-23), outside of verbatim environments, newish versions of AsciiDoc will convert double hyphens to en dashes. Use the litdd syntax introduced by that patch to avoid such misformatting in sentences where "--" represents the two-character "end of options" argument that separates revision names from filename patterns.
Ugh. I just did a similar thing for "->". I really wish asciidoc would not expand symbols inside backticks in paragraph mode.
-to that of the last commit with `git reset HEAD -- <file>`,
+to that of the last commit with `git reset HEAD {litdd} <file>`,Does \-- work? That seems way more readable to me for people viewing the source. -Peff