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From: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
To: "Thomas Bachem" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Julia Evans" <julia@jvns.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: add more AsciiDoc cross-references
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:06:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7532313e-4705-4e2f-b36d-f2329d70ac6a@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.2416.git.git.1790105342890.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 22, 2026, at 21:29, Julia Evans via GitGitGadget wrote:
> From: Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca>
>
> Instead of saying "see EXAMPLES below", say "see <<EXAMPLES,EXAMPLES>>
> below" to make the man pages easier to navigate on the web.
>
> The reason for using the more verbose <<EXAMPLES,EXAMPLES>>
> (instead of <<EXAMPLES>>) is that if the header that `<<EXAMPLES>>`
> is referring to is in an included page (for example `REMOTES` in the
> `git-push` man page), then AsciiDoc will think it's a broken link even
> though it isn't. So it's easier to just make all of the links use the
> form with two parts.
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca>
> ---
>[snip]

Now that I’ve read this commit message, it seems like an obvious idea
in hindsight.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-23 19:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-22 19:29 [PATCH] doc: add more AsciiDoc cross-references Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2026-09-22 20:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-09-22 20:54   ` Julia Evans
2026-09-23 21:40     ` Jeff King
2026-09-24 12:30       ` Julia Evans
2026-09-24 15:55         ` Jeff King
2026-09-24 17:15         ` Junio C Hamano
2026-09-24 17:22           ` Julia Evans
2026-09-24 18:17             ` Junio C Hamano
2026-09-24 18:42             ` Jeff King
2026-09-23 19:06 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk [this message]
2026-09-23 22:00 ` Jeff King
2026-09-25  0:52 ` [PATCH v2] " Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2026-09-25  8:27   ` Jeff King
2026-09-25 16:08     ` Rewriting the Git tutorial to cover less content Julia Evans
2026-09-25 16:47       ` Junio C Hamano
2026-09-25 17:25         ` Julia Evans
2026-09-25 18:23           ` Junio C Hamano
2026-09-25 19:22             ` Julia Evans
2026-09-25 19:34               ` Junio C Hamano
2026-09-28 12:21                 ` Julia Evans
2026-09-28 15:16                   ` Junio C Hamano

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