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* Merge branch 'bc/use-asciidoctor-opt'Junio C Hamano2017-02-02
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Asciidoctor, an alternative reimplementation of AsciiDoc, still needs some changes to work with documents meant to be formatted with AsciiDoc. "make USE_ASCIIDOCTOR=YesPlease" to use it out of the box to document our pages is getting closer to reality. * bc/use-asciidoctor-opt: Documentation: implement linkgit macro for Asciidoctor Makefile: add a knob to enable the use of Asciidoctor Documentation: move dblatex arguments into variable Documentation: add XSLT to fix DocBook for Texinfo Documentation: sort sources for gitman.texi Documentation: remove unneeded argument in cat-texi.perl Documentation: modernize cat-texi.perl Documentation: fix warning in cat-texi.perl
| * Documentation: implement linkgit macro for Asciidoctorbrian m. carlson2017-01-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | AsciiDoc uses a configuration file to implement macros like linkgit, while Asciidoctor uses Ruby extensions. Implement a Ruby extension that implements the linkgit macro for Asciidoctor in the same way that asciidoc.conf does for AsciiDoc. Adjust the Makefile to use it by default. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * Makefile: add a knob to enable the use of Asciidoctorbrian m. carlson2017-01-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While Git has traditionally built its documentation using AsciiDoc, some people wish to use Asciidoctor for speed or other reasons. Add a Makefile knob, USE_ASCIIDOCTOR, that sets various options in order to produce acceptable output. For HTML output, XHTML5 was chosen, since the AsciiDoc options also produce XHTML, albeit XHTML 1.1. Asciidoctor does not have built-in support for the linkgit macro, but it is available using the Asciidoctor Extensions Lab. Add a macro to enable the use of this extension if it is available. Without it, the linkgit macros are emitted into the output. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * Documentation: move dblatex arguments into variablebrian m. carlson2017-01-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Our dblatex invocation uses several style components from the AsciiDoc distribution, but those components are not available when building with Asciidoctor. Move the command line arguments into a variable so it can be overridden by the user or makefile configuration options. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * Documentation: add XSLT to fix DocBook for Texinfobrian m. carlson2017-01-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are two ways to create a section in a reference document (i.e., manpage) in DocBook 4: refsection elements and refsect, refsect2, and refsect3 elements. Either form is acceptable as of DocBook 4.2, but they cannot be mixed. Prior to DocBook 4.2, only the numbered forms were acceptable. docbook2texi only accepts the numbered forms, and this has not generally been a problem, since AsciiDoc produces the numbered forms. Asciidoctor, on the other hand, uses a shared backend for DocBook 4 and 5, and uses the unnumbered refsection elements instead. If we don't convert the unnumbered form to the numbered form, docbook2texi omits section headings, which is undesirable. Add an XSLT stylesheet to transform the unnumbered forms to the numbered forms automatically, and preprocess the DocBook XML as part of the transformation to Texinfo format. Note that this transformation is only necessary for Texinfo, since docbook2texi provides its own stylesheets. The DocBook stylesheets, which we use for other formats, provide the full range of DocBook 4 and 5 compatibility, and don't have this issue. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * Documentation: sort sources for gitman.texibrian m. carlson2017-01-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sorting the sources makes it easier to compare the output using diff. In addition, it aids groups creating reproducible builds, as the order of the files is no longer dependent on the file system or other irrelevant factors. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | asciidoctor: fix user-manual to be built by `asciidoctor`마누엘2017-01-13
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | The `user-manual.txt` is designed as a `book` but the `Makefile` wants to build it as an `article`. This seems to be a problem when building the documentation with `asciidoctor`. Furthermore the parts *Git Glossary* and *Appendix B* had no subsections which is not allowed when building with `asciidoctor`. So lets add a *dummy* section. Signed-off-by: 마누엘 <nalla@hamal.uberspace.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation/technical: describe signature formatsMichael J Gruber2016-06-17
| | | | | | | | | We use different types of signature formats in different places. Set up the infrastructure and overview to describe them systematically in our technical documentation. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation: bold literals in manErwan Mathoniere2016-05-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Backticks are emphasized through monospaced styling in the HTML version of Git documentation. But they were left unstyled in the manual pages. To make the man pages more comfortably read, `MAN_BOLD_LITERAL` was added by 5121a6d (Documentation: option to render literal text as bold for manpages, 2009-03-27). It allowed the user to build the manpages with literals in bold style. For precaution it was not set by default back then. Since 79c461d (docs: default to more modern toolset, 2010-11-19), it is assumed ASCIIDOC 8 and at least docbook-xsl 1.73 are used, so the need for compatibility concern is much lessor now. Remove `MAN_BOLD_LITERAL`, and typeset literals as bold by default . Add `NO_MAN_BOLD_LITERAL`, a new Makefile option, disabling this feature when defined. Signed-off-by: Erwan MATHONIERE <erwan.mathoniere@grenoble-inp.org> Signed-off-by: Samuel GROOT <samuel.groot@grenoble-inp.org> Signed-off-by: Tom RUSSELLO <tom.russello@grenoble-inp.org> Signed-off-by: Matthieu MOY <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ci: validate "linkgit:" in documentationJunio C Hamano2016-05-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It is easy to add incorrect "linkgit:<page>[<section>]" references to our documentation suite. Catch these common classes of errors: * Referring to Documentation/<page>.txt that does not exist. * Referring to a <page> outside the Git suite. In general, <page> must begin with "git". * Listing the manual <section> incorrectly. The first line of the Documentation/<page>.txt must end with "(<section>)". with a new script "ci/lint-gitlink", and drive it from "make check-docs". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation: fix version numberingSven van Haastregt2015-01-22
| | | | | | | | | | Version numbers in asciidoc-generated content (such as man pages) went missing as of da8a366 (Documentation: refactor common operations into variables). Fix by putting the underscore back in the variable name. Signed-off-by: Sven van Haastregt <svenvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Merge branch 'bc/asciidoctor'Junio C Hamano2014-10-29
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add machinery to alternatively use AsciiDoctor to format our documentation. * bc/asciidoctor: Documentation: remove Asciidoctor linkgit macro Documentation: refactor common operations into variables Documentation: implement linkgit macro for Asciidoctor Documentation: move some AsciiDoc parameters into variables
| * Documentation: refactor common operations into variablesbrian m. carlson2014-10-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Makefile performs several very similar tasks to convert AsciiDoc files into either HTML or DocBook. Move these items into variables to reduce the duplication. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * Documentation: move some AsciiDoc parameters into variablesbrian m. carlson2014-10-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Asciidoctor takes slightly different arguments from AsciiDoc in some cases. It has a different name for the HTML backend and the "docbook" backend produces DocBook 5, not DocBook 4.5. Also, Asciidoctor does not accept the -f option. Move these values into variables so that they can be overridden by users wishing to use Asciidoctor instead of Asciidoc. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | doc: add 'everyday' to 'git help'Philip Oakley2014-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The "Everyday GIT With 20 Commands Or So" is not accessible via the Git help system. Move everyday.txt to giteveryday.txt so that "git help everyday" works, and create a new placeholder file everyday.html to refer people who follow existing URLs to the updated location. giteveryday.txt now formats well with AsciiDoc as a man page and refreshed content to a more command modern style. Add 'everyday' to the help --guides list and update git(1) and 5 other links to giteveryday. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | doc: Makefile regularise OBSOLETE_HTML list buildingPhilip Oakley2014-10-10
|/ | | | | | Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* How to keep a project's canonical history correct.Stephen P. Smith2014-05-28
| | | | | | | | | | | During the mail thread about "Pull is mostly evil" a user asked how the first parent could become reversed. This howto explains how the first parent can get reversed when viewed by the project and then explains a method to keep the history correct. Signed-off-by: Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation: make it easier to maintain enumerated documentsJunio C Hamano2014-01-27
| | | | | | | | Instead of starting an enumeration of documents with a DOC = doc1 followed by DOC += doc2, DOC += doc3, ..., empty it with "DOC =" at the beginning and consistently add them with "DOC += ...". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* create HTML for http-protocol.txtThomas Ackermann2014-01-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ./Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt was missing from TECH_DOCS in Makefile. Add it and also improve HTML formatting while still retaining good readability of the ASCII text: - Use monospace font instead of italicized or roman font for machine output and source text - Use roman font for things which should be body text - Use double quotes consistently for "want" and "have" commands - Use uppercase "C" / "S" consistently for "client" / "server"; also use "C:" / "S:" instead of "(C)" / "(S)" for consistency and to avoid having formatted "(C)" as copyright symbol in HTML - Use only spaces and not a combination of tabs and spaces for whitespace Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* user-manual: improve html and pdf formattingThomas Ackermann2014-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | Use asciidoc style 'article' instead of 'book' and change asciidoc title level. This removes blank first page and superfluous "Part I" page (there is no "Part II") in pdf output. Also pdf size is decreased by this from 77 to 67 pages. In html output this removes unnecessary sub-tocs and chapter numbering. Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* howto: add article on recovering a corrupted objectJeff King2013-10-25
| | | | | | | | | | This is an asciidoc-ified version of a corruption post-mortem sent to the git list. It complements the existing howto article, since it covers a case where the object couldn't be easily recreated or copied from elsewhere. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation/Makefile: make AsciiDoc dblatex dir configurableJohn Keeping2013-10-03
| | | | | | | | | On my system this is in /usr/share/asciidoc/dblatex not /etc/asciidoc/dblatex. Extract this portion of the path to a variable so that is can be set in config.mak. Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
* Documentation/Makefile: move infodir to be with other '*dir'sJohn Keeping2013-06-17
| | | | | Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation/Makefile: fix spaces around assignmentsJohn Keeping2013-06-17
| | | | | | | A simple style fix; no functional change. Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Merge branch 'da/mergetool-docs'Junio C Hamano2013-02-07
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Build on top of the clean-up done by jk/mergetool and automatically generate the list of mergetool and difftool backends the build supports to be included in the documentation. * da/mergetool-docs: doc: generate a list of valid merge tools mergetool--lib: list user configured tools in '--tool-help' mergetool--lib: add functions for finding available tools mergetool--lib: improve the help text in guess_merge_tool() mergetool--lib: simplify command expressions
| * doc: generate a list of valid merge toolsDavid Aguilar2013-02-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use the show_tool_names() function to build lists of all the built-in tools supported by difftool and mergetool. This frees us from needing to update the documentation whenever a new tool is added. Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Merge branch 'jk/doc-makefile-cleanup'Junio C Hamano2013-02-07
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | * jk/doc-makefile-cleanup: Documentation/Makefile: clean up MAN*_TXT lists
| * | Documentation/Makefile: clean up MAN*_TXT listsJeff King2013-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We keep a list of the various files that end up as man1, man5, etc. Let's break these single-line lists into sorted multi-line lists, which makes diffs that touch them much easier to read. Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | Merge branch 'jk/remote-helpers-doc'Junio C Hamano2013-02-07
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "git help remote-helpers" did not work; 'remote-helpers' is not a subcommand name but a concept, so its documentation should have been in gitremote-helpers, not git-remote-helpers. * jk/remote-helpers-doc: Rename {git- => git}remote-helpers.txt
| * | | Rename {git- => git}remote-helpers.txtJohn Keeping2013-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When looking up a topic via "git help <topic>", git-help prepends "git-" to topics that are the names of commands (either builtin or found on the path) and "git" (no hyphen) to any other topic name. "git-remote-helpers" is not the name of a command, so "git help remote-helpers" looks for "gitremote-helpers" and does not find it. Fix this by renaming "git-remote-helpers.txt" to "gitremote-helpers.txt". Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | | Merge branch 'jn/xml-depends-on-asciidoc-conf' into maintJunio C Hamano2013-01-14
| |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * jn/xml-depends-on-asciidoc-conf: docs: manpage XML depends on asciidoc.conf
* | | | | Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'Thomas Ackermann2013-02-01
| |_|/ / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | Merge branch 'jn/xml-depends-on-asciidoc-conf'Junio C Hamano2013-01-11
|\ \ \ \ | |/ / / |/| / / | |/ / | | | * jn/xml-depends-on-asciidoc-conf: docs: manpage XML depends on asciidoc.conf
| * | docs: manpage XML depends on asciidoc.confJonathan Nieder2013-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When building manual pages, the source text is transformed to XML with AsciiDoc before the man pages are generated from the XML with xmlto. Fix the dependencies in the Makefile so that the XML files are rebuilt when asciidoc.conf changes and not just the manual pages from unchanged XML, and move the dependencies from a recipeless rule to the rules with commands that use asciidoc.conf to make the dependencies easier to understand and maintain. Reported-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Tested-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | Merge branch 'maint'Junio C Hamano2012-12-22
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| * | Merge branch 'ta/doc-cleanup' into maintJunio C Hamano2012-12-22
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * ta/doc-cleanup: Documentation: build html for all files in technical and howto Documentation/howto: convert plain text files to asciidoc Documentation/technical: convert plain text files to asciidoc Change headline of technical/send-pack-pipeline.txt to not confuse its content with content from git-send-pack.txt Shorten two over-long lines in git-bisect-lk2009.txt by abbreviating some sha1 Split over-long synopsis in git-fetch-pack.txt into several lines
| * | | Sort howto documents in howto-index.txtThomas Ackermann2012-12-22
| | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Howto documents in howto-index.txt were listed in a rather random order. So better sort them. Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | Merge branch 'ta/new-command-howto'Junio C Hamano2012-12-21
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * ta/new-command-howto: Move ./technical/api-command.txt to ./howto/new-command.txt
| * | | Move ./technical/api-command.txt to ./howto/new-command.txtThomas Ackermann2012-12-21
| | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The contents of this document does not describe any particular API, but is more about the way to add a new command, which belongs to the "How To" section of the documentation suite. Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | Remove duplicate entry in ./Documentation/MakefileThomas Ackermann2012-12-19
|/ / | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Documentation: build html for all files in technical and howtoThomas Ackermann2012-10-25
|/ | | | | | | | These files were recently revised to be valid asciidoc, so there is no reason not to build html versions. Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker66@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
* Documentation/Makefile: Allow custom XMLTO binaryDave Borowitz2012-09-19
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* check-docs: get documented command list from MakefileJeff King2012-08-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current code tries to get a list of documented commands by doing "ls Documentation/git*txt" and culling a bunch of special cases from the result. Looking for "git-*.txt" would be more accurate, but would miss a few commands like "gitweb" and "gitk". Fortunately, Documentation/Makefile already knows what this list is, so we can just ask it. Annoyingly, we still have to post-process its output a little, since make will print extra cruft like "GIT-VERSION-FILE is up to date" to stdout. Now that our list is accurate, we can remove all of the ugly special-cases. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Merge branch 'jk/no-more-asciidoc7'Junio C Hamano2012-06-25
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We no longer use AsciiDoc7 syntax in our documentation and favor a more modern style. * jk/no-more-asciidoc7: docs: drop antique comment from Makefile docs: drop asciidoc7compatible flag
| * docs: drop antique comment from MakefileJeff King2012-05-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This comment warns about a bug in asciidoc 6, and points to a patch from 2005. Since we don't even support versions of asciidoc that old, we can safely get rid of the warning. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * docs: drop asciidoc7compatible flagJeff King2012-05-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When we made the switch to supporting asciidoc 8 in 4c7100a (Documentation: adjust to AsciiDoc 8, 2007-06-14), we were able to leave most of the documentation intact by defining asciidoc7compatible. Since commit 6cf378f (docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal, 2012-04-26), we don't support versions of asciidoc older than 8.4.1, which is when inline literals were introduced. Therefore there is not much point in keeping our documentation compatible with asciidoc 7. So we are now free to drop the asciidoc7compatible flag and update the documentation itself to assume asciidoc8. Fortunately, doing the latter is very easy; we weren't using any of the constructs impacted by asciidoc7compatible, so there are no changes to make. The reason is somewhat subtle. The asciidoc7compatible affects only super/sub-scripts ("^" and "~") and index terms. We don't use the latter at all. Nor we do we use the former, but we did have to protect them from accidental expansion in constructs like "rev^1". However, all of our uses of "~" and "^" are either in code blocks (which are rendered literally), or inside backticks. Prior to 6cf378f, backticks were not inline literals, and needed proper quoting. But post-6cf378f, we don't have to worry whether we are using the old or new rules, as those characters are not interpreted at all in either case. I verified that the result of "make install-html install-man" is identical before and after this patch on asciidoc 8.6.7. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Merge branch 'mm/api-credentials-doc'Junio C Hamano2012-06-08
|\ \ | |/ |/| | | | | | | | | Finishing touches... * mm/api-credentials-doc: docs: fix cross-directory linkgit references
| * docs: fix cross-directory linkgit referencesJeff King2012-06-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Most of our documentation is in a single directory, so using linkgit:git-config[1] just generates a relative link in the same directory. However, this is not the case with the API documentation in technical/*, which need to refer to git-config from the parent directory. We can fix this by passing a special prefix attribute when building in a subdirectory, and respecting that prefix in our linkgit definitions. We only have to modify the html linkgit definition. For manpages, we can ignore this for two reasons: 1. we do not generate actual links to the file in manpages, but instead just give the name and section of the linked manpage 2. we do not currently build manpages for subdirectories, only html Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Merge branch 'jk/doc-asciidoc-inline-literal'Junio C Hamano2012-05-02
|\ \ | |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Our documentation was written for an ancient version of AsciiDoc, making the source not very readable. By Jeff King * jk/doc-asciidoc-inline-literal: docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal
| * docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literalJeff King2012-04-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In asciidoc 7, backticks like `foo` produced a typographic effect, but did not otherwise affect the syntax. In asciidoc 8, backticks introduce an "inline literal" inside which markup is not interpreted. To keep compatibility with existing documents, asciidoc 8 has a "no-inline-literal" attribute to keep the old behavior. We enabled this so that the documentation could be built on either version. It has been several years now, and asciidoc 7 is no longer in wide use. We can now decide whether or not we want inline literals on their own merits, which are: 1. The source is much easier to read when the literal contains punctuation. You can use `master~1` instead of `master{tilde}1`. 2. They are less error-prone. Because of point (1), we tend to make mistakes and forget the extra layer of quoting. This patch removes the no-inline-literal attribute from the Makefile and converts every use of backticks in the documentation to an inline literal (they must be cleaned up, or the example above would literally show "{tilde}" in the output). Problematic sites were found by grepping for '`.*[{\\]' and examined and fixed manually. The results were then verified by comparing the output of "html2text" on the set of generated html pages. Doing so revealed that in addition to making the source more readable, this patch fixes several formatting bugs: - HTML rendering used the ellipsis character instead of literal "..." in code examples (like "git log A...B") - some code examples used the right-arrow character instead of '->' because they failed to quote - api-config.txt did not quote tilde, and the resulting HTML contained a bogus snippet like: <tt><sub></tt> foo <tt></sub>bar</tt> which caused some parsers to choke and omit whole sections of the page. - git-commit.txt confused ``foo`` (backticks inside a literal) with ``foo'' (matched double-quotes) - mentions of `A U Thor <author@example.com>` used to erroneously auto-generate a mailto footnote for author@example.com - the description of --word-diff=plain incorrectly showed the output as "[-removed-] and {added}", not "{+added+}". - using "prime" notation like: commit `C` and its replacement `C'` confused asciidoc into thinking that everything between the first backtick and the final apostrophe were meant to be inside matched quotes - asciidoc got confused by the escaping of some of our asterisks. In particular, `credential.\*` and `credential.<url>.\*` properly escaped the asterisk in the first case, but literally passed through the backslash in the second case. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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