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Date:   Fri, 31 May 2019 17:36:18 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] Rough draft document on merging and rebasing
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On Thu, 30 May 2019 17:45:23 -0700
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:

> On 5/30/19 12:53 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > +  git merge v5.2-rc1^0  
> 
> That line is presented in my email client (Thunderbird) as
> 
>      git merge v5.2-rc1{superscript 0}
> 
> Could you escape/quote it to prevent that?

So I'm a wee bit confused.  That's a literal string that one needs to
type to obtain the needed effect; if thunderbird is doing weird things
with it, I think that the problem does not lie with the document...?  What
change would you have me make here?

Thanks,

jon