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Re: [PATCH] Fix typesetting in Bugs section of 'git-rebase' man page (web version)

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 20, 2013, 04:43 UTC
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"Jason St. John" <jstjohn@purdue.edu> writes:
> Documentation/git-rebase.txt: add a blank line after the two AsciiDoc
>     listing blocks
That looks funnily formatted, out of place and redundant.
> Without these blank lines, AsciiDoc thinks the opening "-----" is a
> section heading and typesets the word "to" as such, which causes
> cascading formatting/typesetting issues until the end of the document.
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>
> Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
> ---
> You can see the carnage here:
> http://git-scm.com/docs/git-rebase#_bugs
>
> This fixes GitHub issue github/gitscm-next#281

Hmph. https://git-htmldocs.googlecode.com/git/git.html has HTML documentation pages I preformat, but as far as I can see, the bugs section of git-rebase(1) does not have such a "carnage".

Perhaps git-scm.com uses some buggy formatter?
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  1. Fix typesetting in Bugs section of 'git-rebase' man page (web version)Jason St. John, Nov 20, 2013
  2. Jonathan NiederNov 20, 2013
  3. Jason St. JohnNov 20, 2013
  4. Jonathan NiederNov 20, 2013
  5. Junio C HamanoNov 20, 2013
  6. Jason St. JohnJan 11, 2014
  7. Junio C HamanoJan 13, 2014
  8. Jason St. JohnJan 15, 2014
  9. Kyle J. McKayJan 15, 2014
  10. Junio C HamanoJan 16, 2014

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