Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Allow building Git with Asciidoctor

From: Jeff King <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 02:24:25 -0700

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 12:20:35AM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:

> This series is designed to implement the changes necessary to build Git
> using Asciidoctor instead of AsciiDoc.

These all looked sane to me from my cursory read (I haven't played with
AsciiDoctor myself yet, but it looks from your results like you have).

> I've successfully built the documentation with Asciidoctor using the
> following command line:
> 
>   make doc ASCIIDOC=asciidoctor ASCIIDOC_HTML=html5 \
>   ASCIIDOC_DOCBOOK=docbook45 ASCIIDOC_EXTRA="'-alitdd=&#45;&#45;'" \
>   ASCIIDOC_CONF=

That incantation is getting a bit hairy. Is it worth adding a meta-macro
like USE_ASCIIDOCTOR that encompasses it all? That might encourage other
people to play around with it.

-Peff