Junio C Hamano [2006-05-18 01:06]:
> Tilman Sauerbeck <tilman@code-monkey.de> writes:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Why does this have to come up so often, and everybody who asks
> for them never supplies the patch to do so?

If it comes up that often it would indicate that this is actually a
concern to many people o_O

Also, I prefer to ask whether a patch would even be accepted so I don't
waste 3 hours of my life trying to figure out how to set up asciidoc and
docbook.

> > Or maybe offer them in a separate tarball?
> 
> Things that are buildable from the source do not belong in the
> source tarball.  If somebody wants to do this as a patch, I can
> be talked into accepting it, but the build procedure should
> build a separate tarball (or two; one for man and another for
> woman^Whtml).

I attached a patch.

Regards,
Tilman

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