From: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Martin Ågren" <martin.agren@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Doc: drop support for docbook-xsl before 1.74
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2020 00:45:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200402004533.GA6369@camp.crustytoothpaste.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200401101716.GC60227@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On 2020-04-01 at 10:17:16, Jeff King wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 09:26:00PM +0200, Martin Ågren wrote:
>
> > But most importantly: When I looked into the history, I came upon
> > c2a7f5d438 ("docs: monospace listings in docbook output", 2012-08-07),
> > which made me worry about breaking "make info". On second thought, I
> > might have broken it many times already over the past few years, since
> > I've never built the info. So maybe worrying about that all of a sudden
> > is a bit unfounded in a way. :-/
> >
> > (I tried to build "info" while working on this. It works in the sense
> > that it doesn't error out, but I don't get anything that looks remotely
> > useful. I've never used info at all though, to be honest, so could be
> > missing something fundamental.)
>
> I don't find "info" useful, either. The big thing it offers over "man"
> is actual hyperlinks, but linkgit attributes (the only thing we actually
> bother annotating) don't seem to actually become links! These days I'd
> expect most people interested in hyperlinking to just use HTML. I
> wouldn't be surprised if there's some emacs integration with info,
> though, so maybe people use it there. I dunno. I'd be happy to see all
> of the info bits go away.
I believe Emacs does have good integration with the info format. I
personally prefer documentation in almost any other format and would
also be happy to see it go away, but Emacs users may find it convenient.
Junio, I believe you use Emacs. Do you have an opinion on whether, on
the whole, Emacs users are likely to make good use of the info
documentation?
> I've add brian to the cc, since he was the last person to touch texi
> stuff (though he may have just been doing it out of a sense of
> cleanup/duty).
I clearly see the commit in the history with my name on it and the
explanation seems like something I might have written, but I have no
recollection of touching that code or writing the patch at all. I very
likely only touched it because I felt compelled not to introduce a
regression (although, as you mentioned, I failed).
> The .texi generated for the user-manual is the same before and after
> your patch, so I think it's OK to do.
>
> There _is_ an older regression in the user-manual, though. After commit
> 03920ac69b (asciidoctor: fix user-manual to be built by `asciidoctor`,
> 2017-01-02), the whole front-matter is missing from the generated
> "git.info" file, and there's a funky ": idm4" node. Nobody seems to have
> noticed or complained since then (though perhaps people are more likely
> to look at the manpages than the user manual).
If nobody seems to care very much for the info documentation, we could
drop it. I've put a query out on Twitter to see if anyone I know is
using it.
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brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-29 13:18 [PATCH 0/6] Doc: drop support for docbook-xsl before 1.74 Martin Ågren
2020-03-29 13:18 ` [PATCH 1/6] Doc: drop support for docbook-xsl before 1.71.1 Martin Ågren
2020-03-29 13:18 ` [PATCH 2/6] Doc: drop support for docbook-xsl before 1.72.0 Martin Ågren
2020-03-29 13:18 ` [PATCH 3/6] Doc: drop support for docbook-xsl before 1.73.0 Martin Ågren
2020-03-29 13:18 ` [PATCH 4/6] manpage-bold-literal.xsl: stop using git.docbook.backslash Martin Ågren
2020-03-29 13:18 ` [PATCH 5/6] manpage-normal.xsl: fold in manpage-base.xsl Martin Ågren
2020-03-29 13:18 ` [PATCH 6/6] INSTALL: drop support for docbook-xsl before 1.74 Martin Ågren
2020-03-30 9:26 ` Jeff King
2020-03-29 16:27 ` [PATCH 0/6] Doc: " Junio C Hamano
2020-03-30 9:45 ` Jeff King
2020-03-31 19:26 ` Martin Ågren
2020-04-01 10:17 ` Jeff King
2020-04-01 16:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-02 0:45 ` brian m. carlson [this message]
2020-04-02 16:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-30 10:46 ` brian m. carlson
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