From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitremote-helpers.txt: rename from git-remote-helpers.txt Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:36:16 -0800 Message-ID: <7v1ud1gke7.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <7vfw1ijtz2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: John Keeping , git@vger.kernel.org, Max Horn To: Matthieu Moy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 31 21:37:23 2013 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 1U10sD-00054E-DP for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:36:41 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753841Ab3AaUgU (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:36:20 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:34504 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751628Ab3AaUgS (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:36:18 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDEACBB36; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:36:17 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=/IfaOpzs43LpNvwolu6oBoSbKyk=; b=UnIgPH Iw7F7fhXo0Yl1FZVrClOekXdwm8Qt9uL35L4kRC4K/9kSX2DwBpM9GzsULM7g5pp ILt2pamzUeMSW2ZwSvqlEDrwVAORiFCCqUxa700UPJ8iXRxh+55MNDRTT0KJQFjj /Imf2OLMJuVuB1mFw/buHiSH0RvsDgCcDI3eE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=Xwm51jN3299UkybRMmagzIZ56vokqEFi OWQCzu3cK6Qtw4xDh4QqorAnUJfEAR8OxqXQeM+Iy0lpS4bIWfbNFnjwRwV1JwMk DU9qxYYuPFdcQ/n8u/vF9x6+9WPKEpJTbQNGan/+YGy5XPvMM28dbjrpKG9KOglu lzIEZRqyfx4= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E35F9BB34; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:36:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [98.234.214.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 68E6FBB32; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:36:17 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Matthieu Moy's message of "Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:18:41 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: DD05FD12-6BE5-11E2-B785-F0CE2E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Matthieu Moy writes: > John Keeping writes: > >> Would we want to do something to avoid breaking links to the existing >> document as well? > > That would be nice to add a new git-remote-helpers.txt saying "document > has moved, see linkgit:gitremote-helpers.txt[1], so that HTML links to > http://git-scm.com/docs/git-remote-helpers and friends do not get > broken, yes. Yeah, John's patch fixes internal links, but this will make links from other sites stale. Adding to our installation rule to put a handcrafted HTML page that says "The document moved here; please let the owners of the referring site to know so that they can update the link you clicked to get here" would be appropriate, I think.