From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: Bad Man Page URLs Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 03:23:49 -0400 Message-ID: <20120406072349.GA27115@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <2AC038A1-3D8D-425E-92B3-DADFD027761A@justatheory.com> <20120406023223.GB16264@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20120406025457.GA23997@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20120406042215.GA3938@burratino> <20120406054637.GA25301@sigill.intra.peff.net> <7vzkap1gck.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Scott Chacon , Jonathan Nieder , "David E. Wheeler" , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 06 09:24:00 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SG3WZ-00053w-5L for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:23:59 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753783Ab2DFHXx (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Apr 2012 03:23:53 -0400 Received: from 99-108-226-0.lightspeed.iplsin.sbcglobal.net ([99.108.226.0]:49756 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751859Ab2DFHXw (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Apr 2012 03:23:52 -0400 Received: (qmail 359 invoked by uid 107); 6 Apr 2012 07:23:55 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with ESMTPA; Fri, 06 Apr 2012 03:23:55 -0400 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 06 Apr 2012 03:23:49 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vzkap1gck.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 12:15:07AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Junio, what do you think of building the git-manpages-* tarballs (and > > the git-manpages repo) with MAN_BASE_URL set to "http://some-official-place/"? > > As of now, they mention "file:///home/junio/...". > > I think git-manpages repo already sets the base to the old k.org location > (see dodoc.sh in the 'todo' branch), but I forgot about that setting when > I cobbled together the tarball releasing script to be run on my home box > in a hurry. Ah, I didn't notice that. The k.org location is dead, of course, but I hope we will eventually turn it into at least a redirect to the official location. Scott, I know you've been working hard on the git-scm.com redesign. Any word on when that will be ready, or whether it will contain a mirror of the reference docs? > I do not know how well things would behave if we set it to "git-htmldocs/" > as Jonathan suggests, but we will see what happens. Users will see reference to "git-htmldocs/everyday.html" in their manpage. Not quite as nice as a real URL, but at least not entirely misleading. -Peff