From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: Advertising the prebuilt htmldocs and manpages Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 03:41:04 -0600 Message-ID: <20110219094104.GA31980@elie> References: <7vmxm4onwk.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <1297304069-14764-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com> <20110218022701.GA23435@elie> <20110218092518.GB30648@elie> <4D5F0A7C.1080507@gmail.com> <7v39nkooem.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Junio C Hamano , Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy , git@vger.kernel.org, Nicolas Pitre , Jeff King To: Piotr Krukowiecki X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Feb 19 10:41:28 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PqjJf-0002wM-Ln for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:41:28 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752437Ab1BSJlP convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Feb 2011 04:41:15 -0500 Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:56400 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751478Ab1BSJlM convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Feb 2011 04:41:12 -0500 Received: by iwn8 with SMTP id 8so244954iwn.19 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 01:41:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=jor2FDFXhEKZc6I321i9AkYFMTVnjo05Ftkux7vx9s0=; b=nExTkKQi0YglYmTFCwPe+SzhS41SquDpYm+hHvyGXi+ehVzVmQE2e3ewGLakQ/V8ac +8Q9aOydlGyfPamujXbREoY401VTovnUTxEhXD1NABAAMotxfex4WT3evng5qeR2Zwjo 78I8Mprb5ztfK1+YISoyvguMDSdUJmTzAA+H4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding :in-reply-to:user-agent; b=df6BXuowQcEXsxmBwaQJmwXYBQj/pvzNltNsiTNK0HNMNEhVMPgx5P98N0vSJgzE/r RLAnfpoKlqv8Uont3+GLlnlrT5c2Ld07oNr8/cSjXg3PGKfh3ZanlXd0p/e9WS4WW5Yp rcVGVMjE8TvCKMoE6OdHkQCOZgRjU30HzDHBI= Received: by 10.231.59.149 with SMTP id l21mr1230172ibh.196.1298108472214; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 01:41:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from elie ([69.209.72.148]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id gy41sm2637577ibb.17.2011.02.19.01.41.10 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 19 Feb 2011 01:41:11 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Junio C Hamano w= rote: >> We are talking about a source tree; there is no end-user >> documentation. =C2=A0Only the sources to it. [...] > Note that not everyone compiles docs into man pages - for exampl= e I don't > have needed tools on my laptop and it's not that fast too. I jus= t > have to use > raw .txt files instead. The INSTALL file explains: Alternatively, pre-formatted documentation is available in "html" and "man" branches of the git repository itself. For example, you could: [...] There are also "make quick-install-doc", "make quick-install-man" and "make quick-install-html" which install preformatted man pages and html documentation. It does not explain that http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ contains git-manpages-* and git-htmldocs-* tarballs for people who do not have git yet, though. The README file says: Many Git online resources are accessible from http://git-scm.com/ including full documentation and Git related tools. Maybe this (especially quick-install-doc) can be made more discoverable somehow.