docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal
authorJeff King <peff@peff.net>
Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:51:57 +0000 (04:51 -0400)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:19:06 +0000 (13:19 -0700)
commit6cf378f0cbe7c7f944637892caeb9058c90a185a
tree5de81142ecff4ea7d6c86b98da2ab901070fdb14
parent868d662399786462f87df45c3d68bd5390311a6e
docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal

In asciidoc 7, backticks like `foo` produced a typographic
effect, but did not otherwise affect the syntax. In asciidoc
8, backticks introduce an "inline literal" inside which markup
is not interpreted. To keep compatibility with existing
documents, asciidoc 8 has a "no-inline-literal" attribute to
keep the old behavior. We enabled this so that the
documentation could be built on either version.

It has been several years now, and asciidoc 7 is no longer
in wide use. We can now decide whether or not we want
inline literals on their own merits, which are:

  1. The source is much easier to read when the literal
     contains punctuation. You can use `master~1` instead
     of `master{tilde}1`.

  2. They are less error-prone. Because of point (1), we
     tend to make mistakes and forget the extra layer of
     quoting.

This patch removes the no-inline-literal attribute from the
Makefile and converts every use of backticks in the
documentation to an inline literal (they must be cleaned up,
or the example above would literally show "{tilde}" in the
output).

Problematic sites were found by grepping for '`.*[{\\]' and
examined and fixed manually. The results were then verified
by comparing the output of "html2text" on the set of
generated html pages. Doing so revealed that in addition to
making the source more readable, this patch fixes several
formatting bugs:

  - HTML rendering used the ellipsis character instead of
    literal "..." in code examples (like "git log A...B")

  - some code examples used the right-arrow character
    instead of '->' because they failed to quote

  - api-config.txt did not quote tilde, and the resulting
    HTML contained a bogus snippet like:

      <tt><sub></tt> foo <tt></sub>bar</tt>

    which caused some parsers to choke and omit whole
    sections of the page.

  - git-commit.txt confused ``foo`` (backticks inside a
    literal) with ``foo'' (matched double-quotes)

  - mentions of `A U Thor <author@example.com>` used to
    erroneously auto-generate a mailto footnote for
    author@example.com

  - the description of --word-diff=plain incorrectly showed
    the output as "[-removed-] and {added}", not "{+added+}".

  - using "prime" notation like:

      commit `C` and its replacement `C'`

    confused asciidoc into thinking that everything between
    the first backtick and the final apostrophe were meant
    to be inside matched quotes

  - asciidoc got confused by the escaping of some of our
    asterisks. In particular,

      `credential.\*` and `credential.<url>.\*`

    properly escaped the asterisk in the first case, but
    literally passed through the backslash in the second
    case.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
53 files changed:
Documentation/Makefile
Documentation/config.txt
Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
Documentation/diff-options.txt
Documentation/everyday.txt
Documentation/git-archive.txt
Documentation/git-blame.txt
Documentation/git-bundle.txt
Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
Documentation/git-checkout.txt
Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
Documentation/git-commit.txt
Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
Documentation/git-gc.txt
Documentation/git-grep.txt
Documentation/git-log.txt
Documentation/git-notes.txt
Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt
Documentation/git-pull.txt
Documentation/git-push.txt
Documentation/git-rebase.txt
Documentation/git-reflog.txt
Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
Documentation/git-remote.txt
Documentation/git-rerere.txt
Documentation/git-reset.txt
Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
Documentation/git-revert.txt
Documentation/git-rm.txt
Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
Documentation/git-show.txt
Documentation/git-stash.txt
Documentation/git-status.txt
Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
Documentation/git-whatchanged.txt
Documentation/gitcli.txt
Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
Documentation/gitcredentials.txt
Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt
Documentation/githooks.txt
Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt
Documentation/gitworkflows.txt
Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt
Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
Documentation/technical/protocol-common.txt
Documentation/user-manual.txt