From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Shipping man pages? Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 11:49:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20060518074630.GA2994@code-monkey.de> <7vac9f69la.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <1147945298.1320.35.camel@mjollnir> <7vodxvkws8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Mark Rosenstand , git@vger.kernel.org, Tilman Sauerbeck X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 18 20:49:59 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FgnZC-0004rT-75 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 18 May 2006 20:49:46 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932125AbWERStm (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 May 2006 14:49:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751340AbWERStm (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 May 2006 14:49:42 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:51150 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751377AbWERStl (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 May 2006 14:49:41 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k4IInEtH026145 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 18 May 2006 11:49:16 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k4IIn73a030052; Thu, 18 May 2006 11:49:11 -0700 To: Junio C Hamano In-Reply-To: <7vodxvkws8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.74__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.134 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, 18 May 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > That's a consequence of _your_ choice to build the documentation > files from the source, when I give you preformatted files in > html/man branches and/or prepackaged binary distributions. Even > plain "make all" nor "make install" do not build them. Btw, in case others didn't notice, the easiest way to install the pre-packaged branch is a truly disgusting hack: cd git git tar-tree man | (cd /usr/share/man ; tar xvf -) or similar (yeah, you need to be root to do the unpack, of course, and you may need to change the /usr/share/man to whatever is appropriate for your distribution). No need to actually even check out the 'man' branch. Linus