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-rw-r--r--Documentation/Makefile23
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt4
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index e117bc4315..36989b7f65 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -63,35 +63,28 @@ endif
#
# For asciidoc ...
-# -7.1.2, no extra settings are needed.
-# 8.0-, set ASCIIDOC8.
+# -7.1.2, set ASCIIDOC7
+# 8.0-, no extra settings are needed
#
#
# For docbook-xsl ...
-# -1.68.1, set ASCIIDOC_NO_ROFF? (based on changelog from 1.73.0)
-# 1.69.0, no extra settings are needed?
+# -1.68.1, no extra settings are needed?
+# 1.69.0, set ASCIIDOC_ROFF?
# 1.69.1-1.71.0, set DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP?
-# 1.71.1, no extra settings are needed?
+# 1.71.1, set ASCIIDOC_ROFF?
# 1.72.0, set DOCBOOK_XSL_172.
-# 1.73.0-, set ASCIIDOC_NO_ROFF
+# 1.73.0-, no extra settings are needed
#
-#
-# If you had been using DOCBOOK_XSL_172 in an attempt to get rid
-# of 'the ".ft C" problem' in your generated manpages, and you
-# instead ended up with weird characters around callouts, try
-# using ASCIIDOC_NO_ROFF instead (it works fine with ASCIIDOC8).
-#
-
-ifdef ASCIIDOC8
+ifndef ASCIIDOC7
ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -a asciidoc7compatible -a no-inline-literal
endif
ifdef DOCBOOK_XSL_172
ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -a git-asciidoc-no-roff
MANPAGE_XSL = manpage-1.72.xsl
else
- ifdef ASCIIDOC_NO_ROFF
+ ifndef ASCIIDOC_ROFF
# docbook-xsl after 1.72 needs the regular XSL, but will not
# pass-thru raw roff codes from asciidoc.conf, so turn them off.
ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -a git-asciidoc-no-roff
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt
index 05e8a43a3b..98bd62f022 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ Git v1.7.4 Release Notes (draft)
Updates since v1.7.3
--------------------
+ * The documentation Makefile now assumes by default asciidoc 8 and
+ docbook-xsl >= 1.73. If you have older versions, you can set
+ ASCIIDOC7 and ASCIIDOC_ROFF, respectively.
+
* The option parsers of various commands that create new branch (or
rename existing ones to a new name) were too loose and users were
allowed to call a branch with a name that begins with a dash by