Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com> writes:

quoted text
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Yes.  And 00d8c51 obviously "works for me", so there is
>> something different between what Mark and I are doing.  I cannot
>> tell what it is.
>>
> GZ=1 make quick-install-doc
>
> ...fails because git-ls-tree is called when cwd=$mandir which is
> nowhere under or related to $GIT_DIR.

Oops.  I am blind.  That's right.  That command does a chdir on
its own.

How does this sound?

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diff --git a/Documentation/install-doc-quick.sh b/Documentation/install-doc-quick.sh
index 07d227f..bc170f0 100755
--- a/Documentation/install-doc-quick.sh
+++ b/Documentation/install-doc-quick.sh
@@ -24,10 +24,10 @@ git read-tree $head
 git checkout-index -a -f --prefix="$mandir"/
 
 if test -n "$GZ"; then
-	cd "$mandir"
-	for i in `git ls-tree -r --name-only $head`
+	git ls-tree -r --name-only $head |
+	while read path
 	do
-		gzip < $i > $i.gz && rm $i
+		gzip "$mandir/$path"
 	done
 fi
 rm -f "$GIT_INDEX_FILE"

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