git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: [PATCH] Doc: fix misleading asciidoc formating

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 5, 2019, 23:44 UTC
Message-ID
<xmqqy35ssx7v.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To
<20190305231142.GA359@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> TBH, I still have mixed feelings on rendering these technical docs with
> asciidoc at all. It seems like few enough people bother to render them
> that bugs persist for a long time. It kind of seems like make-work
> getting them to format correctly.

I thought about resisting when some people started pushing for rendering everything under the Sun, but went with the flow as I lacked the energy to fight every battle in sight.

Good to see somebody shares a similar sense of trade-off, better late than never ;-).

Previous: Jeff KingNext: Jean-Noël Avila
Message 6 of 10 in “Doc: fix misleading asciidoc formating”
  1. Doc: fix misleading asciidoc formatingJean-Noël Avila, Mar 5, 2019
  2. Jeff KingMar 5, 2019
  3. Junio C HamanoMar 5, 2019
  4. Jeff KingMar 5, 2019
  5. Jeff KingMar 5, 2019
  6. Junio C HamanoMar 5, 2019
  7. Jean-Noël AvilaMar 6, 2019
  8. Jeff KingMar 6, 2019
  9. Junio C HamanoMar 6, 2019
  10. Junio C HamanoMar 5, 2019

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.