On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
"Scott Chacon" <schacon@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
There is no license in the source code - what are the copying terms?
I copied in the COPYING file from Git - GPL2.
It is maybe somewhat unfortunate that this is in a different format that
the standard git choice asciidoc, but the formats do look rather similar
so I assume it should not be hard to even convert from one to another if
needed.
I simply didn't want to get asciidoc working locally - it's always
been a bit of a pain to compile (I've heard it referred to more than
once as the only 'nightmare dependancy' in git), and I don't need to
make man pages or anything, so it seemed Markdown would be a better
choice for my output targets. There are a number of good Markdown
interpreters and they're easy to get running.
I personally like markdown, but doesn't your refusal to work with existing
practices pose a significant problem, unless:
(0) you do not consider it a goal to keep the documentation shipped with
git and your book in sync; or
(1) you have either markdown to asciidoc (or the other way around)
converter; the book is written in markdown, and its conversion back
to asciidoc is fed to Documentation as patches (or the other way
around); or
(2) somebody tries to find markdown to manpage, and we convert
Documentation/ to markdown.
Haven't used it personally, and without commenting on the "political" side
of such an approach - there does exist at least one tool that claims to be
able to convert from markdown to man: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
Or is this, "fork once and borrow reviewer's time, but never be able to
contribute back to the original text because the result is so different"
approach?
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