Ramkumar Ramachandra <[email protected]> writes:
> Currently, the paragraph corresponding to the --tags option in
> git-fetch(1) looks like:
>
> -t, --tags
> This is a short-hand for giving "refs/tags/:refs/tags/" refspec
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
> this is in bold
>
> This happens because the corresponding text in fetch-options.txt is
> "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*"; asciidoc renders the text between the two
> asterisks in bold. Escape the first asterisk, correcting the text.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <[email protected]>
> ---
> Candidate for maint?
The issue certainly is real and needs a fix for maint. Your
solution I am not sure about.
$ git grep '\\\*' -- Documentation/\*.txt
shows only two meaningful hits (git-rm.txt and git-svn.txt);
everybody else uses
$ git grep '{asterisk}' -- Documentation/\*.txt
and the one you spotted in fetch-options.txt is very similar to the
one appears in git-pull.txt, I think.
> Documentation/fetch-options.txt | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
> index 9cb6496..5f68149 100644
> --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
> @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ endif::git-pull[]
> ifndef::git-pull[]
> -t::
> --tags::
> - This is a short-hand for giving "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*"
> + This is a short-hand for giving "refs/tags/\*:refs/tags/*"
> refspec from the command line, to ask all tags to be fetched
> and stored locally. Because this acts as an explicit
> refspec, the default refspecs (configured with the
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