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Re: Minor man page weirdness?

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Oct 17, 2017, 17:29 UTC
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On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 07:25:28PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
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> >> I see this in git-branch.1:
> >> 
> >>   Reset <branchname> to <startpoint> if <branchname> exists already\&. Without
> >>   \fB\-f\fR\fIgit branch\fR
> >>   refuses to change an existing branch\&. In combination with
> >> 
> >> This is with asciidoc 8.6.9.
> >
> > Thanks, that seems a likely culprit, then. What's in your git-branch.xml
> > after you build the documentation?
> 
> Same as yours, with the space.  I'd guess it's rather xmlto (version
> 0.0.25) that's the culprit here.

Yes, it's in that step, but xmlto is just driving the xslt transformation done by docbook. So the interesting version is probably docbook. I have docbook-xsl 1.79.1+dfsg-2 (from Debian unstable).

-Peff
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