Re: spurious .sp in manpages

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Dec 16, 2006, 12:08 UTC
Message-ID: <7v1wn0hwlf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20061216095242.GC13144@socrates.priv>

Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net> writes:

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> On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 12:58:28AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> This is just a random hack to work around problems people seem
>> to be seeing in manpage backend of xmlto (it appears we are
>> getting ".sp" at the end of line without line break).
>> 
>> Could people test this out?
>> 
>
> This fixes the files available in the man branch of git.git.

Thanks.

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> P.S. I have this fragment in config.mak to install the manpages without
> asciidoc. 
>
> man:
> 	git-archive --format=tar --prefix=${prefix}/man/ man | tar xP
> install: man
>
> .PHONY: man

It's tempting to take it, but that is chicken and egg for me ;-).