Re: [PATCH] howto: Use all-space indentation in ASCII art

2013-07-16 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Those text files are installed as documentation (at least on my distribution). That's probably a distribution bug (or a git makefile bug, depending on how you look at it). It would be better to ship the HTML documentation, converted to text, instead of keeping the version with markup includin

Re: [PATCH] howto: Use all-space indentation in ASCII art

2013-07-16 Thread Dirk Wallenstein
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:26:27AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Dirk Wallenstein wrote: > > > Those text files are installed as documentation (at least on my > > distribution). > > That's probably a distribution bug (or a git makefile bug, depending > on how you look at it). It would be bett

Re: [PATCH] howto: Use all-space indentation in ASCII art

2013-07-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Dirk Wallenstein wrote: > Those text files are installed as documentation (at least on my distribution). That's probably a distribution bug (or a git makefile bug, depending on how you look at it). It would be better to ship the HTML documentation, converted to text, instead of keeping the versi

Re: [PATCH] howto: Use all-space indentation in ASCII art

2013-07-16 Thread Dirk Wallenstein
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:13:28AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Why would you want to limit those files to be source for HTML only? > > > > The HTML after this patch is still fine. > > Have you thought the reason why the formatted result _before_ the patch is > good? No, as I said, *.txt suff

Re: [PATCH] howto: Use all-space indentation in ASCII art

2013-07-16 Thread Junio C Hamano
> Why would you want to limit those files to be source for HTML only? > > The HTML after this patch is still fine. Have you thought the reason why the formatted result _before_ the patch is good? These *.txt files are asciidoc formatted source files. They are meant to be easy to read and edit wit

Re: [PATCH] howto: Use all-space indentation in ASCII art

2013-07-16 Thread Dirk Wallenstein
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 03:00:17PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Dirk Wallenstein writes: > > > Keep the sketch aligned independent of the tabstop width used. > > Thanks. > > This is a source text to be formatted into HTML, isn't it? > > In our sources, a HT indents to multiple of 8 columns.

Re: [PATCH] howto: Use all-space indentation in ASCII art

2013-07-15 Thread Junio C Hamano
Dirk Wallenstein writes: > Keep the sketch aligned independent of the tabstop width used. Thanks. This is a source text to be formatted into HTML, isn't it? In our sources, a HT indents to multiple of 8 columns. As long as the output HTML produced from the source can be seen on a terminal wit

[PATCH] howto: Use all-space indentation in ASCII art

2013-07-15 Thread Dirk Wallenstein
Keep the sketch aligned independent of the tabstop width used. Signed-off-by: Dirk Wallenstein --- Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt | 16 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt b/Documentation/how