Re: "docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal" breaks asciidoc 8.2.5

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Jeff King's 6cf378f0cbe7c7f944637892caeb9058c90a185a broke my Git
> build on CentOS 5.5. The patch suggests that it only breaks
> compatibility with asciidoc 7 but that isn't actually the case.

The commit message of 6cf378f0 is not correct in that respect.  My
ancient 71c020c5 has the right numbers: asciidoc 8.4.1 is the one that
introduced the new inline-literal behavior.  Based on my little survey
in

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/191738/focus=191790

we decided that "nobody" really uses such an old asciidoc any more.
Evidently you are a counterexample.

> I suggest just ejecting this patch and trying again, these RedHat
> systems are still used in a lot of environments, especially by various
> companies.

Do you/they have to *build* the docs, as opposed to using the prebuilt
ones coming from Junio?  Perhaps we can make it so 'make man' refuses to
run if asciidoc is too old, and give a message to the effect that you
should 'make quick-install-man' instead.

Otherwise we'll be working around the f{asterisk}{asterisk}{asterisk}ing
quoting rules for years to come.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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