From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Blake Subject: Re: latest git manual pages have some problems Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:26:44 -0600 Message-ID: <4701AC64.1080508@byu.net> References: <224419.55330.qm@web59112.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cygwin@cygwin.com, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: cygwin-return-136540-goc-cygwin=m.gmane.org@cygwin.com Tue Oct 02 04:26:14 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: goc-cygwin@gmane.org Received: from sourceware.org ([209.132.176.174]) by lo.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IcXSM-0001DU-Ks for goc-cygwin@gmane.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:25:55 +0200 Received: (qmail 9488 invoked by alias); 2 Oct 2007 02:25:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 9476 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Oct 2007 02:25:45 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rwcrmhc15.comcast.net (HELO rwcrmhc15.comcast.net) (216.148.227.155) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:25:44 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.103] (c-67-166-125-73.hsd1.co.comcast.net[67.166.125.73]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc15) with ESMTP id <20071002022542m1500c915te>; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 02:25:43 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070728 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <224419.55330.qm@web59112.mail.re1.yahoo.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Cary R. on 10/1/2007 2:22 PM: > The latest update to git (1.5.3.1) changed how the manual pages are > displayed. And that change would probably be the upgrade from asciidoc 8.2.2 to 8.2.3. > Specifically references to other git manual pages are no longer > shown by name. Instead a reference number with a cross reference at the > end of the file is given. From a usability standpoint this is a real > inconvenience. I am hoping that something changed in the programs used to > generate the manual pages and a new flag/etc. is required to get the > original behavior. I've noticed it, and I hate it too. But don't know enough about asciidoc or the git documentation process to know how to go about fixing it, so I'm adding the git list on this mail for advice. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net volunteer cygwin git packager -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHAaxj84KuGfSFAYARAh1LAKDFEURDhGU25xC8Djdxc12Y1Dz6VQCgz++c WD09VOPGyWeVySdjOau8a3c= =X91K -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----