On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 06:30:00PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> 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-sandals@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.

Yes.  I think I can actually simplify it some more, since we always seem
to use the argument to linkgit, so I'll send out a simplified patch in a
few minutes.
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