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Re: doc bug?

From
Jonas Fonseca <jonas.fonseca@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 9, 2006, 17:30 UTC
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<2c6b72b30612090930o7b856223ub87746181f958b7c@mail.gmail.com>
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On 12/8/06, Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
Hello,
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> while messing with GIT's build system, I got
>
> **
> asciidoc -b docbook -d manpage -f ../Documentation/asciidoc.conf ../Documentation/git-tools.txt
> ERROR: git-tools.txt: line 2: malformed manpage title
> ERROR: git-tools.txt: line 6: first section must be named NAME
> ERROR: git-tools.txt: line 9: malformed NAME section body
> FAILED: /home/lilydev/vc/git/Documentation/git-tools.txt: line 9: unexpected error:
> [traceback]
> **
>
> is this a new problem?  I'm on FC6, with  asciidoc 7.0.2

The git-tools.txt document is not intended to be a man page (there is no git-tools command) so it cannot be converted into a man page. You should be able to make a HTML document out of it, although the AsciiDoc formatting is not "optimal".

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