From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Guilt v0.31 Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:17:25 -0700 Message-ID: <7vmyiifnwa.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20080908135244.GB27550@josefsipek.net> <36ca99e90809081133s58e3d32h8b85804f5bb76902@mail.gmail.com> <20080908184322.GE27550@josefsipek.net> <36ca99e90809081150v4ad6e7a0n72b5cca39e02b1bc@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "Josef 'Jeff' Sipek" , "Git Mailing List" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , guilt@lists.josefsipek.net, "Brandon Philips" To: "Bert Wesarg" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 08 21:19:12 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KcmGU-0007x1-7s for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:19:10 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753390AbYIHTSB (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 15:18:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753016AbYIHTSA (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 15:18:00 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:48769 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752421AbYIHTSA (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 15:18:00 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBAFB79439; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 15:17:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-211.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 457B07942E; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 15:17:28 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <36ca99e90809081150v4ad6e7a0n72b5cca39e02b1bc@mail.gmail.com> (Bert Wesarg's message of "Mon, 8 Sep 2008 20:50:03 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: D9180734-7DDA-11DD-825F-3113EBD4C077-77302942!a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: "Bert Wesarg" writes: > I must admit, that I don't like these extra tarballs with docs. I > always expect, that the manpages are nicely installed if I type 'make > install' (or at least with a install-doc target). But I need to > download this extra package, and extract it to the right place, there > is no Makefile whatsoever. In case of git its really annoying, because > the help mechanism is relying on the manpages (i.e. git help or > git --help, but you know this). There is no need to feel "it[']s really annoying", as install-doc from the tarball distribution works out of the box. I used 1.6.0.1 in the demonstration below, but this is nothing new in that version but has been like this for quite some time (it is how sample RPMs binary packages are built, so the procedure ought to work): $ ls -1 /usr/bin/git ;# to show there is no other "git" on this box ls: /usr/bin/git: No such file or directory $ mkdir /var/tmp/16 $ cd /var/tmp/16 $ wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.6.0.1.tar.gz $ tar xf git-1.6.0.1.tar.gz $ cd git-1.6.0.1 $ make prefix=/var/tmp/16test install install-doc $ PATH=/var/tmp/16test/bin:/usr/bin:/bin $ export PATH $ unset MANPATH $ git help cat-file | cat -s | tail -n 8 Reformatting git-cat-file(1), please wait... DOCUMENTATION Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list . GIT Part of the git(1) suite Git 1.6.0.1 09/08/2008 GIT-CAT-FILE(1) The extra tarballs for documentation are also given as courtesy because they are supposed to be platform independent and some people do not want to generate them themselves (even though they could). Either be thankful for the availability of tarballs, or ignore them and generate them yourself --- it's your choice.