| commit | 756991bc88a9c7a089cc7a8746c86159a7a155e8 | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> | Mon Apr 17 19:18:28 2023 -0600 |
| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | Wed May 03 08:42:36 2023 -0700 |
| tree | ba72df7ea38628567e621ab23aaa12c157b40737 | |
| parent | f85cd430b12b0d3e4f1a30ef3239a1b73d5f6331 [diff] |
doc: remove custom callouts format
The code to render callouts for manpages comes from 17 years ago:
776e994af5 (Properly render asciidoc "callouts" in git man pages.,
2006-04-28), and it was needed back then, but DocBook Stylesheets added
support for that in 2008 [1], since 1.74.0 it hasn't been necessary.
What's worse: the format of the upstream callouts is much nicer than our
hacked version.
Compare this:
$ git diff (1)
$ git diff --cached (2)
$ git diff HEAD (3)
1. Changes in the working tree not yet staged for the next
commit.
2. Changes between the index and your last commit; what you
would be committing if you run git commit without -a
option.
3. Changes in the working tree since your last commit; what
you would be committing if you run git commit -a
To this:
$ git diff (1)
$ git diff --cached (2)
$ git diff HEAD (3)
1. Changes in the working tree not yet staged for the next commit.
2. Changes between the index and your last commit; what you would
be committing if you run git commit without -a option.
3. Changes in the working tree since your last commit; what you
would be committing if you run git commit -a
Let's drop our unnecessary inferior custom format and use the official
one.
[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/docbook/code/7842/
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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