Re: [PATCH 04/11] doc: use asciidoctor to build man pages directly

["Martin Ågren" <martin.agren@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 14 May 2021 at 14:14, Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There's no need to use xmlto to build the man pages when modern
> asciidoctor can do it by itself.
>
> This new mode will be active only when USE_ASCIIDOCTOR is set.

May I suggest incorporating something more like brian's patch here [1],
so that there's a separate knob for this thing?

The commit message is short on details and makes it sound like this is
it, we're done. But then there are several patches to fix up things.
Which is a good approach, so that this patch doesn't need to do several
things at once. This commit message could say something about it, e.g.,

  The doc-diff here [which doc-diff? see below] is a XYZ-line diff.
  Large parts of this difference will be addressed in the following
  patches.

About the use of doc-diff: If this commit introduces a new knob rather
than taking over USE_ASCIIDOCTOR=Yes, the next patch could be Peff's
patch to doc-diff that compares the two asciidoctor approaches [2], and
then the next few patches could diff between them. That would get the
asciidoc-vs-asciidoctor differences out of the way, so you can focus on
asciidoctor-vs-asciidoctor.

With a separate knob, it would feel like a lot easier decision to take
something like this. There are over 11000 lines in the doc-diff after
applying your series, and there's the missing boldness for literals.
Maybe those differences are all great (I would be missing the bold
literals, though). If this series doesn't affect someone using
"vanilla" USE_ASCIIDOCTOR=Yes, we could let this thing cook in master
and work incrementally on top.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20210514003104.94644-2-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net/

[2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/YJt81neO7zsGz2ah@coredump.intra.peff.net/


Martin