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Re: [PATCH] Documentation typo.

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 7, 2007, 02:09 UTC
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Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes:
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>> Unfortunately our documentation pages were written with AsciiDoc
>> 7, and are not AsciiDoc 8 compatible.
>> 
>> With -aasciidoc7compatible, AsciiDoc 8 is _supposed_ to behave
>> compatibly, but in reality it does not format our documentation
>> correctly.  It certainly is possible that AsciiDoc 7 "happens to
>> work" with our documentation pages, and maybe the way we abuse
>> mark-ups can be argued the bug in _our_ documentation, but
>> nobody on our end worked on finding a satisfactory solution to
>> make our documentation format correctly with _both_ versions of
>> AsciiDoc yet.
>>  ...
>
>   Okay, I see, sorry for the noise then.

Well, it was NOT a noise. Making the docs usable with both 7 and 8 is a task waiting for a volunteer ;-).

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  1. Documentation typo.Pierre Habouzit, Jun 5, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoJun 6, 2007
  3. Pierre HabouzitJun 6, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 7, 2007
  5. [RFT] Format our Documentation/ with both AsciiDoc 7 & 8Junio C Hamano, Jun 15, 2007
  6. Pierre HabouzitJun 15, 2007
  7. Junio C HamanoJun 15, 2007
  8. Pierre HabouzitJun 16, 2007
  9. Junio C HamanoJun 16, 2007

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