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In Python 3.6, unrecognized escape sequences in regular expressions
started to produce a DeprecationWarning [1]. In Python 3.12, this was
upgraded to a SyntaxWarning and will eventually be raised even further
to a SyntaxError. We indirectly hit such unrecognized escape sequences
via Asciidoc, which results in a bunch of warnings:
$ asciidoc -o /dev/null git-cat-file.txt
<unknown>:1: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\S'
<unknown>:1: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\S'
This in turn causes our "ci/test-documentation.sh" script to fail, as it
checks that stderr of `make doc` is empty.
These escape sequences seem to be part of Asciidoc itself. In the long
term, we should probably consider dropping support for Asciidoc in favor
of Asciidoctor. Upstream also considers itself to be legacy software and
recommends to move away from it [2]:
It is suggested that unless you specifically require the AsciiDoc.py
toolchain, you should find a processor that handles the modern
AsciiDoc syntax.
For now though, let's expand its lifetime a little bit more by filtering
out these new warnings. We should probably reconsider once the warnings
are upgraded to errors by Python.
[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-and-bytes-literals
[2]: 6d9f76cff0/README.md (asciidocpy)
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals.
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- stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the dictionary of slang.
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