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| -rwxr-xr-x | hack/xref-helpmsgs-manpages | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/hack/xref-helpmsgs-manpages b/hack/xref-helpmsgs-manpages index 42dd3634f..25e972fbc 100755 --- a/hack/xref-helpmsgs-manpages +++ b/hack/xref-helpmsgs-manpages @@ -331,6 +331,15 @@ 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 |