Re: [install info (using perl) 1/2] Add support for an info version of the user manual

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Aug 8, 2007, 23:46 UTC
Message-ID: <85abt1pp2q.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <7v1wed1up3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
> How about doing something like this instead?
>

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> ---
>
>  Documentation/Makefile      |   13 ++++---------
>  Documentation/fix-texi.perl |   15 +++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100755 Documentation/fix-texi.perl
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
> index 56d12aa..8c33729 100644
> --- a/Documentation/Makefile
> +++ b/Documentation/Makefile

> new file mode 100755
> index 0000000..ff7d78f
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/fix-texi.perl

[...]

It makes Perl look like a programming language instead of line noise. But putting it into a file with .perl extension will make users recognize it nevertheless. So

Acked-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>

I can fold this patch in and repost (probably not too many people have applied the previous patches and would require a good fast forward path, so one would probably not need a 3-commit version built on top of the existing patches), or you may do so at your discretion.

Thanks, looks much nicer. I still hope to rationalize Perl away altogether at some point of time, but...

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum