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Since 76880f0510 (doc: git-clone: apply new documentation formatting
guidelines, 2024-03-29), the synopsis of `git clone`'s manual page is
rendered differently than before; Its parent commit did the same for
`git init`.
The result looks quite nice. When rendered with AsciiDoc, that is. When
rendered using AsciiDoctor, the result is quite unpleasant to my eye,
reading something like this:
SYNOPSIS
git clone
[
--template=
<template-directory>]
[
-l
] [
-s
] [
--no-hardlinks
] [
-q
] [
[... continuing like this ...]
Even on the Git home page, where AsciiDoctor's default stylesheet is not
used, this change results in some unpleasant rendering where not only
the font is changed for the `<code>` sections of the synopsis, but
padding and a different background color make the visual impression
quite uneven: compare https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone/2.45.0 to
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone/2.44.0.
To fix this, let's apply the method recommended by AsciiDoctor in
https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoctor/latest/html-backend/default-stylesheet/#customize-docinfo
to partially override AsciiDoctor's default style sheet so that the
`<code>` sections of the synopsis are no longer each rendered on their
own, individual lines.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/5063.
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