Re: [PATCH 0/2] fix spurious space after linkgit, now in *.html
On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 at 03:59, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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> On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 04:14:22PM +0100, Martin Ågren wrote:
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> > [1] I could have sworn I checked the html docs and saw that they didn't
> > have this extra space. Looking at git-scm.com again reveals that it's
> > not there. Huh. Seems like the site's html-rendering doesn't go through our
> > Makefile at all and handles "linkgit:" on its own:
> > https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/blob/master/script/doc_importer
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> Correct. It significantly predates any support for asciidoctor in our
> Makefile, and needs to do some custom ruby-level tweaking (though
> possibly that could be cleaned up these days).
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> The doc_importer script you found, though, is not part of that process.
> I _think_ it's just leftover cruft. The actual import and conversion
> happens as part of the rake task in:
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> https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/blob/master/lib/tasks/index.rake
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> (Not that any of this matters for your series; just sprinkling some fun
> facts into the conversation).
Thanks for this background info, and for the correct link. :-)
Martin