On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 02:21:53PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > As this is only moving the existing note around in the > documentation, it is not making things any worse, so I am OK to take > the patch as-is, but if somebody (it is fine if it were done by you, > Emily) can double check "apt-get install asciidoc" on a vanilla box > does bring in what we need, that would be quite good. FWIW, we > write in our top-level INSTALL file that we require asciidox/xmlto > toolchain (the latter is needed if you format for manpage, i.e. if > you do "git subcmd --help"). I was curious myself, and surprised to learn that 'apt-get install asciidoc' installs more than 2GB of dependencies. Yikes. Unsurprisingly, somewhere in those 2GB we manage to fit in everything that seems to matter, since: $ cat /etc/os-release | grep PRETTY PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)" $ apt-get update && apt-get install asciidoc $ cd copy-of-git $ make -C doc ...works just fine. Thanks, Taylor
