Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3-rc4

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Aug 4, 2007, 04:57 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708040046400.23671@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vfy2zj4nj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> If I read you correctly, what you are proposing to offer is a
> clone of asciidoc, perhaps AsciiDoc 7, with only xhtml11 and man
> backends.  It is a subset in the sense that you will do only two
> backends, but otherwise is a clone in the sense that you are
> going to implement the input language we use (one thing I
> personally care about while probably other people do not is the
> conditional compilation "ifdef::stalenotes[]" in git.txt).

It's worth noting that we're a substantial portion of the asciidoc user base, at least based on asciidoc's "Projects using AsciiDoc" page. We could probably be influential in the asciidoc development if we tried (maybe starting with a config file mechanism for controlling what characters are markup instead of literal, so that we'll be able to make documents which will work the same with all versions of asciidoc).

	-Daniel
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