From: Thomas Braun <thomas.braun@virtuell-zuhause.de>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 11:24:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Allow building Git with Asciidoctor
Message-ID: <543E5966.80400@virtuell-zuhause.de>
In-Reply-To: <20141014095119.GC16686@peff.net>

Am 14.10.2014 um 11:51 schrieb Jeff King:
> 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