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Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: add backporting and conflict resolution document
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From:   Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
To:     Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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        stable@vger.kernel.org, backports@vger.kernel.org,
        Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
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On 3/7/23 12:43, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> We can probably do that, but it doesn't seem to be used much in existing
> kernel documentation, I find no existing instances of it:
> 
> $ git grep '\.\._.*: http' Documentation/
> $
> 
> I know that lots of people really prefer to minimize the amount of
> markup in these files (as they consume them in source form), so I'd
> really like an ack from others before doing this.

Oops, bad regex (missing a space).

$ git grep '\.\. _.*: http' Documentation/

does indeed find a bunch of places where this is used, so I guess it's
fine to do it here too.


Vegard