The "Sending patches" and "Patman patch manager" documents refer to the three-dash, "---", that separates patch parts. The symbol is written in the documentation in the same form as it is in actual patches: as three U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS characters. When building the documentation, Sphinx converts this symbol to a U+2014 EM DASH, that is invalid in this case.
Make the three-dash symbol a reStructuredText inline literal to prevent its conversion; that is, enclose it in a pair of double backquotes (`). Signed-off-by: Grzegorz Szymaszek <gszymas...@short.pl> --- doc/develop/sending_patches.rst | 4 ++-- tools/patman/patman.rst | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/develop/sending_patches.rst b/doc/develop/sending_patches.rst index 5a6962f102..3f25b1d046 100644 --- a/doc/develop/sending_patches.rst +++ b/doc/develop/sending_patches.rst @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ General Patch Submission Rules * For new features: a description of the feature and your implementation. * Additional comments which you don't want included in U-Boot's history can be - included below the first "---" in the message body. + included below the first "``---``" in the message body. * If your description gets too long, that's a strong indication that you should split up your patch. @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ to observe the following rules. * Please make sure to keep a "change log", i.e. a description of what you have changed compared to previous versions of this patch. This change log should - be added below the "---" line in the patch, which starts the "comment + be added below the "``---``" line in the patch, which starts the "comment section", i.e. which contains text that does not get included into the actual commit message. Note: it is *not* sufficient to provide a change log in some cover letter diff --git a/tools/patman/patman.rst b/tools/patman/patman.rst index a8b317eed6..e01355824c 100644 --- a/tools/patman/patman.rst +++ b/tools/patman/patman.rst @@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ Series-notes: Commit-notes: Similar, but for a single commit (patch). These notes will appear - immediately below the --- cut in the patch file:: + immediately below the ``---`` cut in the patch file:: Commit-notes: blah blah -- 2.43.0