{"thread":{"id":"17050","subject":"Plans to put together an Info manual?","startedAt":"2009-01-08T15:47:20Z","lastAt":"2009-01-08T17:09:35Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Tim Visher","Teemu Likonen"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"99709","messageId":"c115fd3c0901080747p4dd1233fla2f877f39ffa9806@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"17050","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Plans to put together an Info manual?","fromName":"Tim Visher","fromEmail":"tim.visher@gmail.com","sentAt":"2009-01-08T15:47:20Z","receivedAt":"2009-01-08T15:47:20Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"tim.visher@gmail.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/98307ce54bcac1a46b5d845827d5386e2a27895ff08790cdd3877ad527760575?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"I did a _teensy_ bit of googling and nosing around on the home page,\nso forgive me if this has been brought up before or if it in fact\nalready exists.\n\nI wast just wondering A) If there is an info manual for Git, B) If\nthere isn't, is one planned?\n\nI'm personally a big fan of Info manuals over traditional man pages\nbut I have no experience with creating them or anything like that.\nHowever, this might be another nice place for people who aren't at all\nfamiliar with C (read: me) to jump in and help out with development.\n\n-- \n\nIn Christ,\n\nTimmy V.\n\nhttp://burningones.com/\nhttp://five.sentenc.es/ - Spend less time on e-mail\n"},{"id":"99724","messageId":"87vdspk9m8.fsf@iki.fi","threadId":"17050","inReplyTo":"c115fd3c0901080747p4dd1233fla2f877f39ffa9806@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Plans to put together an Info manual?","fromName":"Teemu Likonen","fromEmail":"tlikonen@iki.fi","sentAt":"2009-01-08T17:09:35Z","receivedAt":"2009-01-08T17:09:35Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"tlikonen@iki.fi","avatar":null},"body":"Tim Visher (2009-01-08 10:47 -0500) wrote:\n\n> I wast just wondering A) If there is an info manual for Git, B) If\n> there isn't, is one planned?\n\nThere is already something that _can_ be called \"info manual for Git\".\nIt's basically info version of Git User's Manual:\n\n    http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html\n\nRegular man pages are also available in info format.\n\nThe info manuals are not written in native info format, though. They are\ngenerated from the asciidoc markup files, through xml format. There are\nsome problems with typesetting as some characters simply disappear in\nthe \"asciidoc -> xml -> texi -> info\" conversion. Two dashes (--) turn\ninto one (-), for example. But if you are not too demanding the info\nmanuals are quite usable. You can compile them with \"make info\" command.\n"}]}