Re: Shipping man pages?

From: Fernando J. Pereda <ferdy@ferdyx.org>
Date: 2006-05-18 18:10:37
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 09:46:32AM +0200, Tilman Sauerbeck wrote:
> Hi,
> atm, the git release tarballs don't contain man pages. They can be
> generated from the asciidoc source files, which makes the build depend
> on python and asciidoc.
> 
> That's *very* inconvenient; would it be possible to include the man
> pages in the release tarball?
> 
> Or maybe offer them in a separate tarball?

Hi Tilman,

Actually Junio has 'html' and 'man' branches in his git.git repository
so you just have to use git tar-tree on them.

I do this for the Gentoo packages, you can grab a tarball from any of
our mirrors, the files are called git-{html,man}-VERSION.tar.bz2

- ferdy

-- 
Fernando J. Pereda Garcimartín
Gentoo Developer (Alpha,net-mail,mutt,git)
20BB BDC3 761A 4781 E6ED  ED0B 0A48 5B0C 60BD 28D4


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Received on Thu May 18 18:11:17 2006

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : 2006-05-18 18:11:36 EST