Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3-rc4
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Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
- Date
- Aug 4, 2007, 09:12 UTC
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- <20070804091249.GA17821@uranus.ravnborg.org>
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- <46B418AA.4070701@midwinter.com>
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 02:11:54PM +0800, Steven Grimm wrote:
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> Junio C Hamano wrote: > >If I read you correctly, what you are proposing to offer is a > >clone of asciidoc, perhaps AsciiDoc 7, with only xhtml11 and man > >backends. It is a subset in the sense that you will do only two > >backends, but otherwise is a clone in the sense that you are > >going to implement the input language we use (one thing I > >personally care about while probably other people do not is the > >conditional compilation "ifdef::stalenotes[]" in git.txt). > > > > Yes and no. I am not offering to clone *all* of AsciiDoc, just whatever > subset is necessary to format the git documentation. (Of course, having > looked at this very little so far, perhaps that really is all of > AsciiDoc -- but it's certainly not all of xmlto.)
Never looked at Ascii-doc... but how about finding the loopholes in Ascii-doc to make it 10x faster? That would benefit a larger user-base than just doing-it-ourself.
Sam