Re: groff .ft command use in asciidoc

From: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 20, 2010, 01:48 UTC
Message-ID: <20101120014808.GZ16929@inocybe.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <7v62vsc45d.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Thanks.  I usually am fairly cautious when changing the default, but
> I think this particular one is not such a big deal.  I agree that
> the end of the year release would probably be a good time to switch.
>
> I think people on RHEL5 would also be ok; they have paid support for
> this kind of thing, no ;-)?

Sadly, git isn't in RHEL5 officially. We package it in EPEL though. Currently, it's at the ancient 1.5.5.6 mile marker. I have taken care to ensure that the Fedora rpm's build cleanly for EPEL-5 (and 4 last I checked), albeit with the lack of emacs support¹.

I haven't tested this patch, but I am confident that removing the ASCIIDOC knobs where appropriate won't cause us any grief in Fedora, EPEL, or RHEL (where git-1.7.x is now officially supported, finally!).

¹ Incidentally, if anyone here is a strong user of emacs vcs mode and could help work out what we need to do to make git-1.7.x work with the emacs-21.4 shipped in RHEL, please let me know. That's the only impediment (that I know of) keeping us from moving EPEL to a more modern git, with all the fabulous advantages the fine folks here have made since 1.5.x.

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