On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 03:48:39PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > 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. > > OK, that makes me feel even better. Thanks for checking it, Taylor. - Emily
