On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 01:42:08AM -0700, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 19 April 2015 at 01:34, Alexey Dokuchaev <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 07:16:45AM +0000, Eitan Adler wrote: > >> New Revision: 281727 > >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/281727 > >> > >> Log: > >> README: changes and fixups > >> Two orthogonal goals: > >> - try to make README look a little nicer on phabricator by using > >> Remarkup syntax for commands (using `` instead of using a > >> closing ') > >> - try to make README look a little nicer on github. > > > > FreeBSD had traditionally used both double (``...'') and single (`...') > > to express "literal" something; I am not convinced that changing it > > just to match GitHub's markdown warrants it. This `...` form is alien > > to FreeBSD, and can be also confused with backquoted form of shell's > > $(...) command substitution. > > Without this change, the syntax ends up being parsed very weirdly by > both phabricator and github. That said, if there is strong precedent > not to use the markdown syntax, and it would cause confusion, I will > revert those changes.
I understand your reasons. I don't think we have any strong precedent for those things, but nor do I want to neglect the issue of markdowning our docs... Seeing /usr/ports/CONTRIBUTING.md already made me shiver. Since we control our own installation of Phabricator, maybe we should teach it to recognize ``...'' and `...' instead of converting them? (I don't know what to do about GitHub, but I don't like the idea that their markdown syntax inadvertently affects our files.) ./danfe _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
