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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] Rough draft document on merging and rebasing
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
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Date:   Fri, 31 May 2019 16:52:06 -0700
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On 5/31/19 4:36 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> 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?

I dunno.  I just won't depend on my email client.
I'll read it some other way (like a text editor).

cheers.
-- 
~Randy