From: Yannick Gingras <ygingras@ygingras.net>
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:11:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: rename gitlink macro to linkgit
Message-ID: <87fxxexgpu.fsf@enceladus.ygingras.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vir2am95w.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

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

>> 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.

-- 
Yannick Gingras