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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: git docs on kernel.org too new?
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 14:20:57 -0500
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Stefano Spinucci <virgo977virgo@gmail.com> wrote:
> this isn't the first time someone is confused by git docs, and I guess
> why we can't have a documentation page as
> http://www.python.org/doc/versions/

Indeed.  Or at least only post docs which correspond to a
downloadable tar file?

Perhaps we could embed in at least the HTML version of the docs the
output of `GIT-VERSION-GEN` ?  Then users at least have a chance
at knowing the docs are referring to 1.5.0-rc3 and not to 1.4.4.4?

-- 
Shawn.