On 2021-05-08 at 03:10:50, Jeff King wrote:
> On Fri, May 07, 2021 at 11:57:32PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> 
> > It's not quite that simple.  It requires changes to
> > asciidoctor-extensions.rb and we also need to consider
> > NO_MAN_BOLD_LITERAL and GNU_ROFF.  The latter especially is likely to be
> > inconvenient, since according to the Makefile, it's impossible to write
> > man output that works across troff versions.
> > 
> > We will also want to preserve the ability to use xmlto because we
> > currently have doc-diff which helps us find divergences in the behavior
> > of AsciiDoc and Asciidoctor, many of which affect all formats, and that
> > will be completely useless if we use two different rendering toolchains.
> 
> Speaking of doc-diff: with that patch applied, try "./doc-diff
> --asciidoctor HEAD^ HEAD", which shows quite a few of the complications
> (another one seems to be that all of the linkgit macros are broken).

Yes, that's because the linkgit macros are specified on a
format-specific basis by the extensions file and without updating
they won't understand how to generate output for the manpage formatter.
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brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
Houston, Texas, US