From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:09:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation typo.
Message-ID: <7vzm3csegw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070606221806.GA23830@artemis>

Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes:

>> 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 ;-).