Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3-rc4

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Aug 5, 2007, 18:23 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708051118590.5037@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <85bqdlj1lh.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, David Kastrup wrote:

> 
> You are still unable to focus on anything but name-calling and editors
> rather than documentation formats.

No, it's the same thing.

I started out by saying that Texinfo is horrible. It's horrible because it doesn't *buy* you anything. The only thing it buys you (the "info" format) is totally irrelevant, which I tried to explain.

AsciiDoc is much nicer. It does everything that Texinfo does for us, and it's readable on its own as plain text, something Texinfo isn't.

So by advocating Texinfo, you're advocating something that is OBJECTIVELY WORSE than what we have now.

And I tried to explain why, by pointing out that info files (which was the case you tried to push as an advantage) aren't actually an advantage to any normal user.

			Linus