On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 11:19:26PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 04:35:44PM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 02:28:55PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > > > The need for the extensions could be replaced with a small amount of > > > > Ruby code, if that's considered desirable. Previous opinions on doing > > > > so were negative, however. > > > > > > Quite frankly, it is annoying to be forced to install the extensions. I > > > would much rather have the small amount of Ruby code in Git's repository. > > > > Me too. Dependencies can be a big annoyance. I'd reserve judgement until > > I saw the actual Ruby code, though. :) > > I've sent the patch before, but I can send it again. It's relatively > small and self-contained. I'm also happy to be responsible for > maintaining it.
Ah, it's: http://public-inbox.org/git/1413070656-241955-5-git-send-email-sand...@crustytoothpaste.net/ (and note there is some surrounding discussion there). The code is not _too_ bad. The main thing is that it would have to be kept up to date with changes to asciidoc.conf's version of the linkgit macro. But it's not like that changes frequently. -Peff
