Re: groff .ft command use in asciidoc

[Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>]

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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Thanks.  I usually am fairly cautious when changing the default, but
> I think this particular one is not such a big deal.  I agree that
> the end of the year release would probably be a good time to switch.
>
> I think people on RHEL5 would also be ok; they have paid support for
> this kind of thing, no ;-)?

Sadly, git isn't in RHEL5 officially.  We package it in EPEL though.
Currently, it's at the ancient 1.5.5.6 mile marker.  I have taken care
to ensure that the Fedora rpm's build cleanly for EPEL-5 (and 4 last I
checked), albeit with the lack of emacs support¹.

I haven't tested this patch, but I am confident that removing the
ASCIIDOC knobs where appropriate won't cause us any grief in Fedora,
EPEL, or RHEL (where git-1.7.x is now officially supported, finally!).  

¹ Incidentally, if anyone here is a strong user of emacs vcs mode and
could help work out what we need to do to make git-1.7.x work with the
emacs-21.4 shipped in RHEL, please let me know.  That's the only
impediment (that I know of) keeping us from moving EPEL to a more
modern git, with all the fabulous advantages the fine folks here have
made since 1.5.x.

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