Re: [PATCH] Fix documentation AsciiDoc links for external urls
Roberto Tyley roberto.ty...@gmail.com writes: Turns out that putting 'link:' before the 'http' is actually superfluous in AsciiDoc, as there's already a predefined macro to handle it. http, https, [etc] URLs are rendered using predefined inline macros. http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#_urls Hypertext links to files on the local file system are specified using the link inline macro. http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#_linking_to_local_documents Despite being superfluous, the reference implementation of AsciiDoc tolerates the extra 'link:' and silently removes it, giving a functioning link in the generated HTML. However, AsciiDoctor (the Ruby implementation of AsciiDoc used to render the http://git-scm.com/ site) does /not/ have this behaviour, and so generates broken links, as can be seen here: http://git-scm.com/docs/git-cvsimport (links to cvs2git parsecvs) http://git-scm.com/docs/git-filter-branch (link to The BFG) It's worth noting that after this change, the html generated by 'make html' in the git project is identical, and all links still work. --- Sign-off? The overall reasoning sounds good, and the patch also looks sensible. Thanks. Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt| 2 +- Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt| 2 +- Documentation/gitweb.txt | 2 +- Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt | 4 ++-- 6 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt index 2df9953..260f39f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt @@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ DESCRIPTION *WARNING:* `git cvsimport` uses cvsps version 2, which is considered deprecated; it does not work with cvsps version 3 and later. If you are performing a one-shot import of a CVS repository consider using -link:http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html[cvs2git] or -link:https://github.com/BartMassey/parsecvs[parsecvs]. +http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html[cvs2git] or +https://github.com/BartMassey/parsecvs[parsecvs]. Imports a CVS repository into Git. It will either create a new repository, or incrementally import into an existing one. diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt index 2eba627..09535f2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt @@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ git-filter-branch allows you to make complex shell-scripted rewrites of your Git history, but you probably don't need this flexibility if you're simply _removing unwanted data_ like large files or passwords. For those operations you may want to consider -link:http://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/[The BFG Repo-Cleaner], +http://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/[The BFG Repo-Cleaner], a JVM-based alternative to git-filter-branch, typically at least 10-50x faster for those use-cases, and with quite different characteristics: @@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ characteristics: _is_ possible to write filters that include their own parallellism, in the scripts executed against each commit. -* The link:http://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/#examples[command options] +* The http://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/#examples[command options] are much more restrictive than git-filter branch, and dedicated just to the tasks of removing unwanted data- e.g: `--strip-blobs-bigger-than 1M`. diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt index 058a352..d2d7c21 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt @@ -1443,7 +1443,7 @@ Although Git is a truly distributed system, it is often convenient to organize your project with an informal hierarchy of developers. Linux kernel development is run this way. There is a nice illustration (page 17, Merges to Mainline) in -link:http://www.xenotime.net/linux/mentor/linux-mentoring-2006.pdf[Randy Dunlap's presentation]. +http://www.xenotime.net/linux/mentor/linux-mentoring-2006.pdf[Randy Dunlap's presentation]. It should be stressed that this hierarchy is purely *informal*. There is nothing fundamental in Git that enforces the chain of diff --git a/Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt b/Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt index 5ea94cb..5f4e890 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ Importing a CVS archive --- First, install version 2.1 or higher of cvsps from -link:http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/[http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/] and make +http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/[http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/] and make sure it is in your path. Then cd to a checked out CVS working directory of the project you are
[PATCH] Fix documentation AsciiDoc links for external urls
Turns out that putting 'link:' before the 'http' is actually superfluous in AsciiDoc, as there's already a predefined macro to handle it. http, https, [etc] URLs are rendered using predefined inline macros. http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#_urls Hypertext links to files on the local file system are specified using the link inline macro. http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#_linking_to_local_documents Despite being superfluous, the reference implementation of AsciiDoc tolerates the extra 'link:' and silently removes it, giving a functioning link in the generated HTML. However, AsciiDoctor (the Ruby implementation of AsciiDoc used to render the http://git-scm.com/ site) does /not/ have this behaviour, and so generates broken links, as can be seen here: http://git-scm.com/docs/git-cvsimport (links to cvs2git parsecvs) http://git-scm.com/docs/git-filter-branch (link to The BFG) It's worth noting that after this change, the html generated by 'make html' in the git project is identical, and all links still work. Signed-off-by: Roberto Tyley roberto.ty...@gmail.com --- Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt| 2 +- Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt| 2 +- Documentation/gitweb.txt | 2 +- Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt | 4 ++-- 6 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt index 2df9953..260f39f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt @@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ DESCRIPTION *WARNING:* `git cvsimport` uses cvsps version 2, which is considered deprecated; it does not work with cvsps version 3 and later. If you are performing a one-shot import of a CVS repository consider using -link:http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html[cvs2git] or -link:https://github.com/BartMassey/parsecvs[parsecvs]. +http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html[cvs2git] or +https://github.com/BartMassey/parsecvs[parsecvs]. Imports a CVS repository into Git. It will either create a new repository, or incrementally import into an existing one. diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt index 2eba627..09535f2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt @@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ git-filter-branch allows you to make complex shell-scripted rewrites of your Git history, but you probably don't need this flexibility if you're simply _removing unwanted data_ like large files or passwords. For those operations you may want to consider -link:http://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/[The BFG Repo-Cleaner], +http://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/[The BFG Repo-Cleaner], a JVM-based alternative to git-filter-branch, typically at least 10-50x faster for those use-cases, and with quite different characteristics: @@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ characteristics: _is_ possible to write filters that include their own parallellism, in the scripts executed against each commit. -* The link:http://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/#examples[command options] +* The http://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/#examples[command options] are much more restrictive than git-filter branch, and dedicated just to the tasks of removing unwanted data- e.g: `--strip-blobs-bigger-than 1M`. diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt index 058a352..d2d7c21 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt @@ -1443,7 +1443,7 @@ Although Git is a truly distributed system, it is often convenient to organize your project with an informal hierarchy of developers. Linux kernel development is run this way. There is a nice illustration (page 17, Merges to Mainline) in -link:http://www.xenotime.net/linux/mentor/linux-mentoring-2006.pdf[Randy Dunlap's presentation]. +http://www.xenotime.net/linux/mentor/linux-mentoring-2006.pdf[Randy Dunlap's presentation]. It should be stressed that this hierarchy is purely *informal*. There is nothing fundamental in Git that enforces the chain of diff --git a/Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt b/Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt index 5ea94cb..5f4e890 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ Importing a CVS archive --- First, install version 2.1 or higher of cvsps from -link:http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/[http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/] and make +http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/[http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/] and make sure it is in your path. Then cd to a checked out CVS working directory of the project you are interested in and run linkgit:git-cvsimport[1]: diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.txt index cca14b8..cd9c895 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitweb.txt +++
[PATCH] Fix documentation AsciiDoc links for external urls
Turns out that putting 'link:' before the 'http' is actually superfluous in AsciiDoc, as there's already a predefined macro to handle it. http, https, [etc] URLs are rendered using predefined inline macros. http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#_urls Hypertext links to files on the local file system are specified using the link inline macro. http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#_linking_to_local_documents Despite being superfluous, the reference implementation of AsciiDoc tolerates the extra 'link:' and silently removes it, giving a functioning link in the generated HTML. However, AsciiDoctor (the Ruby implementation of AsciiDoc used to render the http://git-scm.com/ site) does /not/ have this behaviour, and so generates broken links, as can be seen here: http://git-scm.com/docs/git-cvsimport (links to cvs2git parsecvs) http://git-scm.com/docs/git-filter-branch (link to The BFG) It's worth noting that after this change, the html generated by 'make html' in the git project is identical, and all links still work. --- Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt| 2 +- Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt| 2 +- Documentation/gitweb.txt | 2 +- Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt | 4 ++-- 6 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt index 2df9953..260f39f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt @@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ DESCRIPTION *WARNING:* `git cvsimport` uses cvsps version 2, which is considered deprecated; it does not work with cvsps version 3 and later. If you are performing a one-shot import of a CVS repository consider using -link:http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html[cvs2git] or -link:https://github.com/BartMassey/parsecvs[parsecvs]. +http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html[cvs2git] or +https://github.com/BartMassey/parsecvs[parsecvs]. Imports a CVS repository into Git. It will either create a new repository, or incrementally import into an existing one. diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt index 2eba627..09535f2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt @@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ git-filter-branch allows you to make complex shell-scripted rewrites of your Git history, but you probably don't need this flexibility if you're simply _removing unwanted data_ like large files or passwords. For those operations you may want to consider -link:http://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/[The BFG Repo-Cleaner], +http://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/[The BFG Repo-Cleaner], a JVM-based alternative to git-filter-branch, typically at least 10-50x faster for those use-cases, and with quite different characteristics: @@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ characteristics: _is_ possible to write filters that include their own parallellism, in the scripts executed against each commit. -* The link:http://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/#examples[command options] +* The http://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/#examples[command options] are much more restrictive than git-filter branch, and dedicated just to the tasks of removing unwanted data- e.g: `--strip-blobs-bigger-than 1M`. diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt index 058a352..d2d7c21 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt @@ -1443,7 +1443,7 @@ Although Git is a truly distributed system, it is often convenient to organize your project with an informal hierarchy of developers. Linux kernel development is run this way. There is a nice illustration (page 17, Merges to Mainline) in -link:http://www.xenotime.net/linux/mentor/linux-mentoring-2006.pdf[Randy Dunlap's presentation]. +http://www.xenotime.net/linux/mentor/linux-mentoring-2006.pdf[Randy Dunlap's presentation]. It should be stressed that this hierarchy is purely *informal*. There is nothing fundamental in Git that enforces the chain of diff --git a/Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt b/Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt index 5ea94cb..5f4e890 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ Importing a CVS archive --- First, install version 2.1 or higher of cvsps from -link:http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/[http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/] and make +http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/[http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/] and make sure it is in your path. Then cd to a checked out CVS working directory of the project you are interested in and run linkgit:git-cvsimport[1]: diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.txt index cca14b8..cd9c895 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitweb.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitweb.txt @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ separator
