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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5/RFC 1/6] Documentation: Preparation for gitweb manpages
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:16:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201110112016.09620.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vvcrvfmg4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>>> I probably do not have time to look into this, but just FYI my trial merge
>>> to 'pu' of this topic is failing like this:
>>> 
>>> asciidoc: ERROR: gitweb.conf.txt: line 484: illegal style name: Default: ()
>>> asciidoc: ERROR: gitweb.conf.txt: line 494: illegal style name: Default: 300
>>
>> Damn, I thought I have fixed that.  This probably depends on AsciiDoc
>> version ("make doc" on 'master' generates a few _warnings_ for me related
>> to similar situation), but the problem is with
>>
>>   [Default: <value>]
>>
>> that was copied from gitweb/README.  But [<sth>] is an attribute list
>> (style name in simplest form), used more often in newer AsciiDoc.
>>
>> So either we have to escape '[' and ']', i.e. use {startsb} and {endsb},
>> which would reduce human-friendliness, or move to different way of marking
>> default values, e.g. _italic_.
>>
>> What do you think?
> 
> What do the other documents in the directory this file lives say?  I think
> we explain what the variables does, and add "defaults to false" or
> somesuch in the text, without any funny mark-up.

O.K., will do.

Now that reminds me that in a few situations gitweb.conf.txt uses literary
description "defaults to sth"...  I'll make the rest consistent with this.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-11 18:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-08 18:31 [PATCHv5/RFC 0/6] Moving gitweb documentation to manpages Jakub Narebski
2011-10-08 18:31 ` [PATCHv5/RFC 1/6] Documentation: Preparation for gitweb manpages Jakub Narebski
2011-10-10 18:53   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-10 21:52     ` Jakub Narebski
2011-10-10 23:10       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-11 15:39         ` Jakub Narebski
2011-10-11 17:49           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-11 18:16             ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2011-10-08 18:31 ` [PATCHv5 2/6] gitweb: Add manpage for gitweb configuration files Jakub Narebski
2011-10-08 18:32 ` [PATCHv5/RFC 3/6] gitweb: Add manpage for gitweb Jakub Narebski
2011-10-10 18:56   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-10 22:02     ` Jakub Narebski
2011-10-10 22:18       ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-10-11 13:02         ` Drew Northup
2011-10-11 13:51           ` Jakub Narebski
2011-10-11 14:01             ` [PATCHv5/RFC 3/6] gitweb: Add manpage for gitweb (APPLICATION!!!) Drew Northup
2011-10-11 14:20               ` Jakub Narebski
2011-10-11 16:56                 ` Drew Northup
2011-10-08 18:32 ` [PATCHv5 4/6] Documentation: Link to gitweb(1) and gitweb.conf(5) in other manpages Jakub Narebski
2011-10-08 18:32 ` [PATCHv5 5/6] Documentation: Add gitweb config variables to git-config(1) Jakub Narebski
2011-10-08 18:32 ` [PATCHv5 6/6] gitweb: Add gitweb manpages to 'gitweb' package in git.spec Jakub Narebski
2011-10-10 18:47 ` [PATCHv5/RFC 0/6] Moving gitweb documentation to manpages Junio C Hamano

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