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Re: [PATCH] Documentation: rename gitlink macro to linkgit

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Yannick Gingras <ygingras@ygingras.net>
Date
Jan 4, 2008, 06:11 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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>> But the test suite can only catch obvious rendering failures so any
>> help in eyeballing the output will be appreciated.
>
> You could go fancy like that, but I suspect that an automated
> test to compare the text dump (e.g. "links -dump doc.html")
> generated by before and after version, perhaps with minimum
> massaging, would go a long enough way.  At least that would have
> caught the "gitlink" breakage, wouldn't it?

Yeah it would have caught it. I'll hack something like that before the 9.0 release.

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Yannick Gingras
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  1. Eric HanchrowDec 28, 2007
  2. Dan McGeeDec 29, 2007
  3. Miklos VajnaDec 29, 2007
  4. Dan McGeeDec 29, 2007
  5. Documentation: rename gitlink macro to linkgitDan McGee, Dec 29, 2007
  6. Junio C HamanoJan 3, 2008
  7. Yannick GingrasJan 4, 2008
  8. Junio C HamanoJan 4, 2008
  9. Yannick GingrasJan 4, 2008

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