Re: [PATCH] Documentation: use {asterisk} in rev-list-options.txt when needed

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 04:35:48PM +0100, Carlos Martín Nieto wrote:

Text between to '*' is emphasized in AsciiDoc which made the

s/to/two/

glob-related explanations in rev-list-options.txt very confusing, as
the rendered text would be missing two asterisks and the text between
them would be emphasized instead.

Use '{asterisk}' where needed to make them show up as asterisks in the
rendered text.
[...]
-	'*', or '[', '/*' at the end is implied.
+	'{asterisk}', or '[', '/{asterisk}' at the end is implied.

Ugh. I hate asciidoc more with each passing year. Readable source
documents are such a wonderful idea, but the markup makes it less and
less readable as we accumulate fixes like this.  I wonder if this has
always been a bug, or something that appeared in more recent versions of
the toolchain.

Anyway, that is not a problem with your patch. :) I confirmed that the
bug happens in my version of the toolchain, and your fix works (I also
tried using `*`, but backtick does not suppress markup. It would be nice
if there was an easy marker for "this is a literal name: no markup, tt
font, etc", but I don't think that exists).

Acked-by: Jeff King <redacted>

-Peff