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From: "Jakub Narębski" <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Missing Package in git Installation Instructions (git-scm.com)
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 15:24:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <577BB507.1060603@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1607050807320.8378@virtualbox>

W dniu 2016-07-05 o 08:10, Johannes Schindelin pisze:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> On Tue, 5 Jul 2016, Christoph Michelbach wrote:
> 
>> Hi, I noticed that the instructions on https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/G
>> etting-Started-Installing-Git don't work without dh-autoreconf
>> installed on an apt-get system which isn't listed on that site. Can you
>> fix that or tell me whom to tell about this? The website doesn't offer
>> contact information. Just tried this on a fresh Ubuntu 16.04
>> installation.
> 
> When you follow that link, do you see this text on the left side?
> 
> 	The source of this book is hosted on GitHub.
> 	Patches, suggestions and comments are welcome.
> 
> It links to https://github.com/progit/progit2 and I am sure your bug
> report would make an excellent contribution to the bug tracker ("Issues")
> in that repository.
> 
> It would probably be even better if you cloned said repository, found the
> respective file via `git grep apt-get`, fixed it, and opened a Pull
> Request.

Or you can even fix it from a web interface, if you have a GitHub account.
Behind the scene, GitHub would fork a repository, edit file and create
a commit, then create a pull request.  Very easy for one-off fixes, assuming
that you have a GitHub account.

-- 
Jakub Narębski



  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-05 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-04 22:13 Missing Package in git Installation Instructions (git-scm.com) Christoph Michelbach
2016-07-05  6:10 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-05 13:24   ` Jakub Narębski [this message]
2016-07-05 18:08     ` Christoph Michelbach

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