[MilStdJunkie]

It feels like this wouldn't be all that hard to keep out of deployment with a githook and a more-or-less simple regex.

I did something very similar for a publishing system, where, well, long story short, but equivalent of local variables[1] were verboten in the production repo. On the other hand, the writers were constantly asking me to override the precommits, so, well, there's the muppet argument.

[1] https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/attributes/cust... Basically, declaring an attribute in an include target. Variable scope is one of those things getting debated in the Asciidoc world these days. Ha ha ha welcome to the 1997 SGML technical steering group, suckas. You're discovering why HTML doesn't have transclusion.