Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix multi-paragraph list items in OPTIONS section

From: Francis Daly <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 10:41:18 +0000

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 10:39:46, Jonas Fonseca wrote:

> Asciidoc cannot handle multi-paragraph description list items without the
> need for adding special control characters and reindenting all paragraphs
> but the first. 

This issue affects the display of current git-cvsimport and
git-svnimport doc pages. There was a general tidy-up done in
df8baa42fe4eeb5a021ac262caf601f44d2a5746 last October, but additions
since then didn't keep the layout.

I don't think there is a full "fix" for this; either the html docs are
ugly (see the -A section in the pages mentioned above as they are now),
or the asciidoc source files look odd (although that's probably not a
big problem) or the manpages look a bit funny.

This patch makes the html docs right, makes the asciidoc docs a bit odd
but consistent with what is there already, and makes the manpages look
OK using docbook-xsl 1.68, but miss a paragraph separator when using 1.69.

For the manpages, current is like

       -A <author_file>
              Read a file with lines on the form

              username = User's Full Name <[email-masked]>

              and use "User's Full Name <[email-masked]>" as the GIT

With this patch, docbook-xsl v1.68 looks like

       -A <author_file>
              Read a file with lines on the form

                      username = User's Full Name <[email-masked]>

              and use "User's Full Name <[email-masked]>" as the GIT author and

while docbook-xsl v1.69 becomes

       -A <author_file>
              Read a file with lines on the form

                        username = User's Full Name <[email-masked]>
              and use "User's Full Name <[email-masked]>" as the GIT author and

The extra indentation is to keep the v1.69 manpage looking sane.

---
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
index 57027b4..b0c6d7c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
@@ -99,21 +99,24 @@ If you need to pass multiple options, se
 	CVS by default uses the unix username when writing its
 	commit logs. Using this option and an author-conv-file
 	in this format
-
++
+---------
 	exon=Andreas Ericsson <[email-masked]>
 	spawn=Simon Pawn <[email-masked]>
 
-	git-cvsimport will make it appear as those authors had
-	their GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL set properly
-	all along.
-
-	For convenience, this data is saved to $GIT_DIR/cvs-authors
-	each time the -A option is provided and read from that same
-	file each time git-cvsimport is run.
-
-	It is not recommended to use this feature if you intend to
-	export changes back to CVS again later with
-	git-link[1]::git-cvsexportcommit.
+---------
++
+git-cvsimport will make it appear as those authors had
+their GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL set properly
+all along.
++
+For convenience, this data is saved to $GIT_DIR/cvs-authors
+each time the -A option is provided and read from that same
+file each time git-cvsimport is run.
++
+It is not recommended to use this feature if you intend to
+export changes back to CVS again later with
+git-link[1]::git-cvsexportcommit.
 
 OUTPUT
 ------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-svnimport.txt b/Documentation/git-svnimport.txt
index 9d38657..b1b87c2 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svnimport.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svnimport.txt
@@ -75,18 +75,21 @@ When importing incrementally, you might 
 
 -A <author_file>::
 	Read a file with lines on the form
++
+------
+	username = User's Full Name <[email-masked]>
 
-	  username = User's Full Name <[email-masked]>
-
-	and use "User's Full Name <[email-masked]>" as the GIT
-	author and committer for Subversion commits made by
-	"username". If encountering a commit made by a user not in the
-	list, abort.
-
-	For convenience, this data is saved to $GIT_DIR/svn-authors
-	each time the -A option is provided, and read from that same
-	file each time git-svnimport is run with an existing GIT
-	repository without -A.
+------
++
+and use "User's Full Name <[email-masked]>" as the GIT
+author and committer for Subversion commits made by
+"username". If encountering a commit made by a user not in the
+list, abort.
++
+For convenience, this data is saved to $GIT_DIR/svn-authors
+each time the -A option is provided, and read from that same
+file each time git-svnimport is run with an existing GIT
+repository without -A.
 
 -m::
 	Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message. This option

-- 
Francis Daly        [email-masked]