Revert escaped double dash man page flag syntax

Commit 800a2e2d35 introduced a way to disable the conversion of `--`into
an en dash on docs.podman.io, so the ugly workaround of escaping the
dashes is no longer necessary.

Signed-off-by: Paul Holzinger <paul.holzinger@web.de>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/hack/xref-helpmsgs-manpages b/hack/xref-helpmsgs-manpages
index 25e972fbc..cc1e233b9 100755
--- a/hack/xref-helpmsgs-manpages
+++ b/hack/xref-helpmsgs-manpages
@@ -331,23 +331,12 @@ sub podman_man {
             @most_recent_flags = ();
             # As of PR #8292, all options are <h4> and anchored
             if ($line =~ s/^\#{4}\s+//) {
-                # 2021-03: PR #9856: some (bleep) markdown processor converts
-                # double dashes to a single em-dash. We need to escape every
-                # instance with backslashes. This is anti-intuitive, and
-                # developers will naturally write --foo; try to catch that
-                # and warn with a helpful message.
-                if ($line =~ /--([a-z]+)/) {
-                    warn "$ME: $subpath:$.: You probably need to backslash-escape '--$1' as '\\-\\-$1'\n";
-                }
-
                 # If option has long and short form, long must come first.
                 # This is a while-loop because there may be multiple long
                 # option names, e.g. --net/--network
-                while ($line =~ s/^\*\*\\-\\-([a-z0-9-]+)\*\*(=\*[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\*)?(,\s+)?//g) {
-                    # add -- to the flag name
-                    my $flag = "--".$1;
-                    $man{$flag} = 1;
-                    push @most_recent_flags, $flag;
+                while ($line =~ s/^\*\*(--[a-z0-9-]+)\*\*(=\*[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\*)?(,\s+)?//g) {
+                    $man{$1} = 1;
+                    push @most_recent_flags, $1;
                 }
                 # Short form
                 if ($line =~ s/^\*\*(-[a-zA-Z0-9])\*\*(=\*[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\*)?//g) {