From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 13:42:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3-rc4
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708041432350.7932@beast.quantumfyre.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200708041511.05191.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, Robin Rosenberg wrote:

>
> Commit 281a53bb79786a6d7e54f9715cc8ad46fc2bdb0e introduced some stains on my man pages. They
> look like:
>
>           .ft C
>                     A---B---C topic
>                    /
>               D---E---F---G master
>           .ft
>
> Versions (Mandriva 20071):
>
> 	asciidoc-8.1.0-1mdv2007.1
> 	docbook-style-xsl-1.72.0-1mdv2007.1

docbook xsl 1.72 is the culprit.  This version has extra escaping rules 
that weren't in 1.71 and were removed for 1.73.  In addition these rules 
are not backwardly compatible.  Basically, you can't build the git docs 
properly with 1.72 ...

See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/52369

-- 
Julian

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