Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> writes:

quoted text
> fixes a failure to build the git-rev-parse manpage,
> seen with asciidoc 8.0.0
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
> ---
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
> index b761b4b..671b4e3 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
> @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ syntax.
>    'rev{caret}0' means the commit itself and is used when 'rev' is the
>    object name of a tag object that refers to a commit object.
>  
> -* A suffix '~<n>' to a revision parameter means the commit
> +* A suffix '$$~$$<n>' to a revision parameter means the commit
>    object that is the <n>th generation grand-parent of the named
>    commit object, following only the first parent.  I.e. rev~3 is
>    equivalent to rev{caret}{caret}{caret} which is equivalent to\

But this makes it asciidoc 7.1 barf, so we need an alternative
compatible to both.

This works for me on 7.1; is your 8.0 happy with it?

-- >8 --

diff --git a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
index 8196d78..44b1ce4 100644
--- a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
+++ b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ # the command.
 caret=^
 startsb=&#91;
 endsb=&#93;
+tilde=&#126;
 
 ifdef::backend-docbook[]
 [gitlink-inlinemacro]
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index b761b4b..2f1306c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ syntax.
   'rev{caret}0' means the commit itself and is used when 'rev' is the
   object name of a tag object that refers to a commit object.
 
-* A suffix '~<n>' to a revision parameter means the commit
+* A suffix '{tilde}<n>' to a revision parameter means the commit
   object that is the <n>th generation grand-parent of the named
   commit object, following only the first parent.  I.e. rev~3 is
   equivalent to rev{caret}{caret}{caret} which is equivalent to\

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