Re: [PATCH 1/2] doc: add an option to have Asciidoctor build man pages directly

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 12, 2021, 22:37 UTC
Message-ID: <YJxYnCg5y4DT+J9H@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cQ6xw_RDmStExWGjmwuQQP+q5F5wCMtrMvtDt4GaAKXUg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 03:53:09PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:

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> On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 2:30 AM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > The new option enables both asciidoctor as well as its direct-to-manpage
> > mode that skips xmlto. This lets you view the rendered difference
> > between the two pipelines with something like:
> >
> >   ./doc-diff --from-asciidoctor --to-asciidoctor-direct HEAD HEAD
> >
> > Note that we have to add quotes when passing around $makemanflags, as it
> > now may contain whitespace due to multiple arguments (but the deference
> 
> I suppose you meant s/deference/dereference/ ?

Yep, thanks.

-Peff

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