Re: [RFC/PATCH] Add support for a pdf version of the user manual

[Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>]

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On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 07:20:42PM -0500, Leo Razoumov <slonik.az@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/10/08, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > "Leo Razoumov" <slonik.az@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >  > BTW, for those of us without dblatex, is it possible to have pdf
> >  > manual pregenerated the same way html and man pages are pregenerated
> >  > for official releases in the git repo?
> >
> >
> > Those of us includes myself, so...
> 
> Ouch:-) Does it mean that such a useful patch has a low probability of
> being accepted?

First, just like the info pages, I don't think it's a problem at all if
the autogenerated pdf version is not part of git.git. I sent the patch
to provide an easy way to do the pdf generation, not to request the
autobuild of it as well.

Second, I think the autogeneration for pdf should not be done similar to
the man/html versions, as the pdf itself is 421K.

However, I'm happy to set up a nightly cron job to build the pdf in case
master is updated and/or there is a new release - in case there is
demand for that.

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