From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gitignore.txt: suggestions how to get literal # or ! at the beginning Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 11:25:16 -0700 Message-ID: <7vr4pbqwz7.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20121006132127.GC11712@sigill.intra.peff.net> <1349531484-5938-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com> <20121006154036.GA14119@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: =?utf-8?B?Tmd1eeG7hW4gVGjDoWkgTmfhu41j?= Duy , git@vger.kernel.org, Philip Oakley To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Oct 06 20:25:34 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TKZ45-00070O-Q8 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 20:25:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751882Ab2JFSZU (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Oct 2012 14:25:20 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:54502 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751132Ab2JFSZT (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Oct 2012 14:25:19 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 087B29033; Sat, 6 Oct 2012 14:25:19 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=67jDyKqm+U3c28nKuwa/dQUpIvU=; b=lTvvqG flKPTq1X2IJJLnP2q6Sf4ucGopGXgFbEO8KSvm2B5lqdg907xi9ogWjC0xcsld5a 6/bb6KsymLdg7gAXxhjNGv6XufZ9aB2uu7cH/Geapq7uXHWpHmVDIT+hEvaJZmUl YD4/82nKj5HdwmfZOd+jbK+ilXLbQnBM8inSg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=S0tfe4X4EQAa5HFp4vB/dXcrwEF6vmy+ zM+0zMMZJd/pYu3ufz+GR73NAxYrnu5VlM6IG3TUep2n3JoSy3nranXEenLicQmH YwDNSNuR6XJngs/6mx+p7O7ES4V2DoReZZjPZT07N02TZs42NgrBQtwBdaoxj5oN hosOKUB0pGA= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EADCB9032; Sat, 6 Oct 2012 14:25:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [98.234.214.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 672D09031; Sat, 6 Oct 2012 14:25:18 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20121006154036.GA14119@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Sat, 6 Oct 2012 11:40:36 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 2E5C0760-0FE3-11E2-925A-BB652E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King writes: > I'd be slightly worried that we are hurting other people who do care and > are on older versions of asciidoc. It would be nice if we actually knew > the cause of the different behaviors we saw and if there was a way to > work around it (it might not even be old asciidoc, but rather old > docbook). > > Part of me wants to just take the change and see if anybody complains. > But that is probably the wrong thing to do, and just my general > frustration with our doc toolchain talking. Yeah, I do not think we would want to introduce such a regression especially when the proposed update is not the only (or best) way to give us the intended benefit. I think the "spell the character name out" approach you showed in the other message was far more readable anyway. Thanks.