[systemd-devel] Messed up PR references on Github

[Filipe Brandenburger]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Jan Synáček <jsynacek at redhat.com> wrote:
> See https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/5. There are multiple
> references to this PR that say "<user> referenced this pull request from
> a commit in <commit>", which is hilarious, as those clearly are not
> references to this PR. Their commit messages contain the string "#5" and
> Github thinks it means a reference. I'm pretty sure this will mess up a
> lot of pull requests in the future. Is there a way to fix this?

If you learn one thing about Markdown (or GitHub Markdown), learn that
a block delimited by ``` lines makes it a verbatim literal (think
<pre> in HTML terms), so when pasting output the best is:

```
#1 bla bla bla
#2 yada yada
```

That won't expand the #n references or any other GitHub syntax...

There's always the "Preview" tab which is useful to look before
submitting the comment as well...

And I think you can always edit your comments after you posted them
(not sure if that will undo the link between the two PRs though.)

HTH,
Filipe