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From: "Fernando J. Pereda" <ferdy@ferdyx.org>
To: Tilman Sauerbeck <tilman@code-monkey.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Shipping man pages?
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 10:10:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060518081037.GA8731@ferdyx.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060518074630.GA2994@code-monkey.de>

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On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 09:46:32AM +0200, Tilman Sauerbeck wrote:
> Hi,
> atm, the git release tarballs don't contain man pages. They can be
> generated from the asciidoc source files, which makes the build depend
> on python and asciidoc.
> 
> That's *very* inconvenient; would it be possible to include the man
> pages in the release tarball?
> 
> Or maybe offer them in a separate tarball?

Hi Tilman,

Actually Junio has 'html' and 'man' branches in his git.git repository
so you just have to use git tar-tree on them.

I do this for the Gentoo packages, you can grab a tarball from any of
our mirrors, the files are called git-{html,man}-VERSION.tar.bz2

- ferdy

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Fernando J. Pereda Garcimartín
Gentoo Developer (Alpha,net-mail,mutt,git)
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-18  8:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-18  7:46 Shipping man pages? Tilman Sauerbeck
2006-05-18  8:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-18  9:41   ` Mark Rosenstand
2006-05-18 18:33     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-18 18:49       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-18 10:57   ` Tilman Sauerbeck
2006-05-18  8:10 ` Fernando J. Pereda [this message]

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