On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 03:09:33PM +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote:
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> Hi!
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> THis is a change request: When building Git, many systems lack the tools =
to build=20
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> the documentation, so the Manual pages (among others) are not built. When=
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> installing, several ".txt" files are installed, but when invoking help li=
ke "git=20
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> commit --help", git only complains about not finding the manual page.
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> Obvious solutions are:
> 1) Pre-build the documentation (manual pages) with the source archive. If=
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> sources are used unmodified, the manual pages should be fine
> 2) If nothing better is found when invoking help, display the text files =
with a=20
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> pager
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> An alternative to 1) would be a add-on "source" package that contains the=
 pre-
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> built documentation. Documentation files should be platform-independent, =
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> should be fine for almost everyone.
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> Comments?

If using the git repository, there's the man branch with prebuilt man
pages.

There's already the 'add-on "source" package', e.g.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-manpages-1.6.2.3.tar.bz2

Regards,
Luciano Rocha

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Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com>
Eurotux Inform=E1tica, S.A. <http://www.eurotux.com/>