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From: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
To: kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail•com
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk•name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: fix accidental literal blocks
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 01:02:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251010050207.GA1897715@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7a955ecb1b5.1759923933.git.code@khaugsbakk.name>

On Wed, Oct 08, 2025 at 01:48:46PM +0200, kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail•com wrote:

> Make sure that normal paragraphs in most user-facing docs[1] don’t
> use literal blocks. This can easily happen if you try to maintain
> indentation in order to continue a block; that might work in
> e.g. Markdown variants, but not in AsciiDoc.
> 
> The fixes are straightforward, i.e. just deindent the block and maybe
> add line continuations. The only exception is git-sparse-checkout(1)
> where we also replace indentation used for *intended* literal blocks
> with `----`.

I gave a quick look over the results of doc-diff before and after, and
all of the changes look good to me.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2025-10-10  5:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-10-08 11:48 [PATCH] doc: fix accidental literal blocks kristofferhaugsbakk
2025-10-10  5:02 ` Jeff King [this message]
2025-10-10  9:35   ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2025-10-10  9:37 ` [PATCH v2] " kristofferhaugsbakk

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