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Date:   Thu, 2 Mar 2017 07:57:09 +0000
From:   Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To:     Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc:     Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] README: create HTTP/HTTPS links from URLs in Markdown
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 07:34:21AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> > Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 10:22:04PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Markdown supports automatic links by surrounding URLs with
> > > > angle brackets, as documented in
> > > > <https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#autolink>
> > > 
> > > One of the joys of markdown is that there are so many variants. A lot of
> > > them (including GitHub-flavored markdown) will linkify URLs even when
> > > they're not inside angle brackets.
> > > 
> > > So I don't mind this patch, but I'm curious what's rendering the
> > > markdown you're seeing. I'd think online that one would either come
> > > across the raw text, or the GFM from https://github.com/git/git.
> > 
> > I was using Gruber's reference implementation from Debian stable
> > (1.0.1-7).
> 
> OK. I guess my question more was "why are you doing that?". I'd expect
> people to find the GFM rendering on GitHub, or just look at the text via
> "less".

Actually, I was initially seeing the lack of trailing slash
causing unnecessary 301 redirects on public-inbox.org.

So, I added the trailing slash and ran "markdown <README.md"
to check my work.

Then, I realized links weren't generated at all without angle
brackets.  So down the rabbit hole I went to read Gruber's syntax
document and linkifying the rest for compatibility with Gruber's
implementation.

> But it's not really my business why you would want to do it. :) It's
> reasonable for us to cater to the common subset of renderers.

:)

I figure somebody unfamiliar with Markdown editing README.md is
likely to run the original implementation locally to check their
work, as I did.


(hmm... and vger is unusually slow this week)