From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: A tour of git: the basics (and notes on some unfriendly messages) Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:06:59 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <87ir5us82a.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <20070929000056.GZ3099@spearce.org> <4D958F04-D531-416A-9FB4-E4119BEC6905@zib.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" , Carl Worth , git@vger.kernel.org To: Steffen Prohaska X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Sep 29 17:08:21 2007 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 1IbdvX-0007GJ-8y for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:08:19 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756030AbXI2PIL (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:08:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754161AbXI2PIL (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:08:11 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:55182 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753967AbXI2PIK (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:08:10 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 29 Sep 2007 15:08:08 -0000 Received: from wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de (EHLO openvpn-client) [132.187.25.13] by mail.gmx.net (mp019) with SMTP; 29 Sep 2007 17:08:08 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/1e6dsF/j1mzISx6SeHuSW2oSxQ6qZEOTVD4DHLR neTo8AQ8sO1bIp X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <4D958F04-D531-416A-9FB4-E4119BEC6905@zib.de> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote: > On Sep 29, 2007, at 2:49 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > > > > > On Cygwin we have man, so `git help init` (or `git init --help`) > > > work just fine to display the manual entry. No idea about the MSYS > > > port. > > > > We open the html pages. That is, we don't yet, since we do not > > generate the html pages just yet; asciidoc is a Python program, and > > Python is not available as an MSys program as far as I know (and > > asciidoc insists on finding files in a Unix-like file structure, so we > > _do_ need an MSys Python). > > I propose to clone the html pages from git.git's html branch and include > them in the installer. I continue to believe that this is the simplest > and fastest solution for providing html pages. I'm hesitant... The html branch is synced with the master branch. And we deviate from the master branch quite a lot ATM. > I'll provide a patch (hopefully next week). This will be a good temporary workaround. Ciao, Dscho