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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2020-11-02 13:17:46 -0800
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2020-11-02 13:17:47 -0800
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Doc update. * es/tutorial-mention-asciidoc-early: MyFirstContribution: clarify asciidoc dependency
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@@ -507,6 +507,9 @@ documentation is consistent with other Git and UNIX manpages; this makes life
easier for your user, who can skip to the section they know contains the
information they need.
+NOTE: Before trying to build the docs, make sure you have the package `asciidoc`
+installed.
+
Now that you've written your manpage, you'll need to build it explicitly. We
convert your AsciiDoc to troff which is man-readable like so:
@@ -522,8 +525,6 @@ $ make -C Documentation/ git-psuh.1
$ man Documentation/git-psuh.1
----
-NOTE: You may need to install the package `asciidoc` to get this to work.
-
While this isn't as satisfying as running through `git help`, you can at least
check that your help page looks right.