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Re: [PATCH] howto: Use all-space indentation in ASCII art

From
DWDirk Wallenstein <halsmit@t-online.de>
Date
Jul 16, 2013, 18:38 UTC
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<20130716183812.GA11138@bottich>
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<20130716182627.GM14690@google.com>
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:26:27AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
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> Dirk Wallenstein wrote:
> 
> > Those text files are installed as documentation (at least on my distribution).
> 
> That's probably a distribution bug (or a git makefile bug, depending
> on how you look at it).  It would be better to ship the HTML
> documentation, converted to text, instead of keeping the version with
> markup including occasional random \ signs, linkgit:, ``, etc.
They are also installed if I only use Git's makefile.
> 
> What distribution do you use?  (As maintainer of packaging for a Linux
> distro, I know at least one that is guilty of this.)

Ubuntu. As an aside, I had to run manual creation as root. Otherwise it did hang (XMLTO). Is that an Ubuntu bug? Sorry, just because you seem to know about this.

-- 
Cheers,
  Dirk
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Message 9 of 16 in “howto: Use all-space indentation in ASCII art”
  1. howto: Use all-space indentation in ASCII artDirk Wallenstein, Jul 15, 2013
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 15, 2013
  3. Dirk WallensteinJul 16, 2013
  4. Junio C HamanoJul 16, 2013
  5. Dirk WallensteinJul 16, 2013
  6. 0/2 Remove tabs from howto documentsDirk Wallenstein, Jul 31, 2013
  7. Fredrik GustafssonJul 31, 2013
  8. Jonathan NiederJul 16, 2013
  9. Dirk WallensteinJul 16, 2013
  10. A Large Angry SCMJul 16, 2013
  11. 1/2 howto: Suppress indentation with tabsDirk Wallenstein, Jul 31, 2013
  12. 2/2 howto: Eliminate all tabsDirk Wallenstein, Jul 31, 2013
  13. Junio C HamanoJul 31, 2013
  14. Dirk WallensteinJul 31, 2013
  15. Piotr KrukowieckiAug 3, 2013
  16. Junio C HamanoAug 5, 2013

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