# Re: spurious .sp in manpages

2 messages from 2006-12-16 to 2006-12-16. Participants: Junio C Hamano, Tom Prince.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/43549

## Tom Prince, 2006-12-16 09:52

Subject: Re: spurious .sp in manpages
Message-ID: <20061216095242.GC13144@socrates.priv>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20061216095242.GC13144%40socrates.priv

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On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 12:58:28AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> This is just a random hack to work around problems people seem
> to be seeing in manpage backend of xmlto (it appears we are
> getting ".sp" at the end of line without line break).
> 
> Could people test this out?
> 

This fixes the files available in the man branch of git.git.

  Tom

P.S. I have this fragment in config.mak to install the manpages without
asciidoc. 

man:
	git-archive --format=tar --prefix=${prefix}/man/ man | tar xP
install: man


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## Junio C Hamano, 2006-12-16 12:08

Subject: Re: spurious .sp in manpages
Message-ID: <7v1wn0hwlf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7v1wn0hwlf.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net
In-Reply-To: <20061216095242.GC13144@socrates.priv>

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Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net> writes:

> On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 12:58:28AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> This is just a random hack to work around problems people seem
>> to be seeing in manpage backend of xmlto (it appears we are
>> getting ".sp" at the end of line without line break).
>> 
>> Could people test this out?
>> 
>
> This fixes the files available in the man branch of git.git.

Thanks.

> P.S. I have this fragment in config.mak to install the manpages without
> asciidoc. 
>
> man:
> 	git-archive --format=tar --prefix=${prefix}/man/ man | tar xP
> install: man
>
> .PHONY: man

It's tempting to take it, but that is chicken and egg for me
;-).

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