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bug report, v1.7.12.1 -- Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.xml:824: parser error

From
HEHugh Esco <hesco@yourmessagedelivered.com>
Date
Sep 30, 2012, 08:21 UTC
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<20120930042159.cd02dc1f.hesco@yourmessagedelivered.com>

doing a source install of git v1.7.12.1, on the `make all doc` step, I get:

    XMLTO gitcore-tutorial.7
xmlto: input does not validate (status 1)
/usr/local/git-git-51993a4/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.xml:824: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: emphasis line 824 and literal
(notice the asterisk <literal><emphasis role="strong"></literal> character), and
                                                                ^
/usr/local/git-git-51993a4/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.xml:828: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: literal line 828 and emphasis
All of them have non blank characters in the first column (<literal></emphasis><
                                                                               ^
/usr/local/git-git-51993a4/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.xml:1263: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: emphasis line 1263 and literal
ra>You will see two files, <literal>pack-<emphasis role="strong">.pack</literal>
                                                                               ^
/usr/local/git-git-51993a4/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.xml:1263: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: literal line 1263 and emphasis
teral>pack-<emphasis role="strong">.pack</literal> and <literal>pack-</emphasis>
                                                                               ^
make[1]: *** [gitcore-tutorial.7] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/git-git-51993a4/Documentation'
make: *** [doc] Error 2

------------------------------------------- and the patch which permitted me to proceed -------------------------------------------

824c824 < (notice the asterisk <literal></literal> character), and the first column for ---

> (notice the asterisk <literal><emphasis role="strong"></literal> character), and the first column for

828c828 < All of them have non blank characters in the first column (<literal></literal> ---

> All of them have non blank characters in the first column (<literal></emphasis></literal>

1263c1263 < <note><simpara>You will see two files, <literal>pack-.pack</literal> and <literal>pack-.idx</literal>, ---

> <note><simpara>You will see two files, <literal>pack-<emphasis role="strong">.pack</literal> and <literal>pack-</emphasis>.idx</literal>,
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  1. Hugh EscoSep 30, 2012

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