From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Teemu Likonen Subject: Re: Plans to put together an Info manual? Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:09:35 +0200 Message-ID: <87vdspk9m8.fsf@iki.fi> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Tim Visher" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 08 18:11:13 2009 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 1LKyPQ-0006L0-BF for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:11:04 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758727AbZAHRJk (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 12:09:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758495AbZAHRJj (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 12:09:39 -0500 Received: from mta-out.inet.fi ([195.156.147.13]:35758 "EHLO kirsi2.inet.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757621AbZAHRJi (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 12:09:38 -0500 Received: from mithlond.arda.local (80.220.180.181) by kirsi2.inet.fi (8.5.014) id 48FC5B890379553C; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 19:09:36 +0200 Received: from dtw by mithlond.arda.local with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LKyNz-0005Bv-D1; Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:09:35 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Tim Visher's message of "Thu\, 8 Jan 2009 10\:47\:20 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Tim Visher (2009-01-08 10:47 -0500) wrote: > I wast just wondering A) If there is an info manual for Git, B) If > there isn't, is one planned? There is already something that _can_ be called "info manual for Git". It's basically info version of Git User's Manual: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html Regular man pages are also available in info format. The info manuals are not written in native info format, though. They are generated from the asciidoc markup files, through xml format. There are some problems with typesetting as some characters simply disappear in the "asciidoc -> xml -> texi -> info" conversion. Two dashes (--) turn into one (-), for example. But if you are not too demanding the info manuals are quite usable. You can compile them with "make info" command.