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Re: [PATCH 0/4] Allow building Git with Asciidoctor

From
Thomas Braun <thomas.braun@virtuell-zuhause.de>
Date
Oct 15, 2014, 11:24 UTC
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Am 14.10.2014 um 11:51 schrieb Jeff King:
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> What's the status on AsciiDoc versus AsciiDoctor? The latter seems more
> actively developed these days, but perhaps that is just my perception.
> The incompatibilities seem fairly minimal (if those first two patches
> are the extent of it, I have no problem at all trying to remain
> compatible with both). Would it ever make sense to switch to AsciiDoctor
> as our official command-line build program? I know it is supposed to be
> much faster (though a lot of the slowness in our build chain is due to
> docbook, not asciidoc itself).

Just recently we added the AsciiDoc toolchain to our git-for-windows/sdk (formerly known as msysgit). So I'm not really fond of switching now to something different again.

Remaining compatible with both would therefore be my choice.
Thomas
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Message 17 of 19 in “Allow building Git with Asciidoctor”
  1. 0/4 Allow building Git with Asciidoctorbrian m. carlson, Oct 11, 2014
  2. 1/4 Documentation: adjust document title underliningbrian m. carlson, Oct 11, 2014
  3. Junio C HamanoOct 13, 2014
  4. 2/4 Documentation: fix mismatched delimiters in git-imap-sendbrian m. carlson, Oct 11, 2014
  5. 3/4 Documentation: move some AsciiDoc parameters into variablesbrian m. carlson, Oct 11, 2014
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 15, 2014
  7. brian m. carlsonOct 16, 2014
  8. 4/4 Documentation: implement linkgit macro for Asciidoctorbrian m. carlson, Oct 11, 2014
  9. Junio C HamanoOct 13, 2014
  10. brian m. carlsonOct 14, 2014
  11. Jakub NarębskiOct 14, 2014
  12. brian m. carlsonOct 14, 2014
  13. Jeff KingOct 14, 2014
  14. Junio C HamanoOct 14, 2014
  15. brian m. carlsonOct 15, 2014
  16. Junio C HamanoOct 15, 2014
  17. Thomas BraunOct 15, 2014
  18. brian m. carlsonOct 15, 2014
  19. Philip OakleyOct 16, 2014

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