Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3-rc4

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 4, 2007, 11:38 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708041235190.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <46B418AA.4070701@midwinter.com>

Hi,

On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, Steven Grimm wrote:

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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> >  * How much can we really rely on your fork to be kept
> >    maintained?  When we need newer mark-up that is not offered
> >    by AsciiDoc 7 clone, is it our plan to model that after
> >    AsciiDoc X (X > 7), or we just come up with an extension of
> >    our own?
> >   
> 
> My thought would be to come up with our own syntax; that's a logical 
> result of me not considering this anything but "a formatter whose input 
> looks suspiciously like AsciiDoc".

There have been a few suggestions to step away from asciidoc in this thread now. IMNSVHO the only switch which would actually make sense, would be towards the Wiki format.

Why?

Because right now, we have a _ton_ of documentation on the Gitwiki, and no easy way to import it back. We also have at least one document which is (semi-regularly) converted from ascii to Wiki markup.

Wiki markup is relatively easy to read (a bit more disruptive that asciidoc), but granted, it is lacking features such as the conditional thing Junio mentioned.

Ciao, Dscho