{"thread":{"id":"33355","subject":"Add a note in the on-line Git book about installing the man pages?","startedAt":"2013-04-02T16:53:20Z","lastAt":"2013-04-02T17:27:23Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["David Tonhofer","Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"212912","messageId":"515B0D00.6020506@m-plify.com","threadId":"33355","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Add a note in the on-line Git book about installing the man pages?","fromName":"David Tonhofer","fromEmail":"d.tonhofer@m-plify.com","sentAt":"2013-04-02T16:53:20Z","receivedAt":"2013-04-02T16:53:20Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"d.tonhofer@m-plify.com","avatar":null},"body":"Hi,\n\nIt seems the git man pages (or HTML pages) are not installed by default \nwhen you install git as described in the http://git-scm.com/book\n\nI propose to add a note to \nhttp://git-scm.com/book/en/Getting-Started-Installing-Git along those lines:\n\n\n\n\nGetting the git manpages from \n\"https://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list\" and unpack them \n(supposing you installed your git into \"/opt/git\"):\n\nTARGET=/opt/git\nVERSION=`$TARGET/bin/git --version | awk '{print $3}' | cut -d '.' -f1-3`\nwget \"http://git-core.googlecode.com/files/git-manpages-${VERSION}.tar.gz\"\nmkdir \"$TARGET/share/man\"\ntar xz -C \"$TARGET/share/man\" -f \"git-manpages-${VERSION}.tar.gz\"\n"},{"id":"212918","messageId":"7vsj38etc4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"33355","inReplyTo":"515B0D00.6020506@m-plify.com","subject":"Re: Add a note in the on-line Git book about installing the man pages?","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2013-04-02T17:27:23Z","receivedAt":"2013-04-02T17:27:23Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"David Tonhofer <d.tonhofer@m-plify.com> writes:\n\n> It seems the git man pages (or HTML pages) are not installed by\n> default when you install git as described in the\n> http://git-scm.com/book\n>\n> I propose to add a note to\n> http://git-scm.com/book/en/Getting-Started-Installing-Git along those\n> lines:\n>\n> Getting the git manpages from\n> \"https://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list\" and unpack them\n> (supposing you installed your git into \"/opt/git\"):\n\nI suspect that most end-users would install not from the source but\ninstall Git from distro as binary packages.  I do not know what the\npage of that website you refer to talks about offhand, but if it is\nabout installing from the source (so that they can help us improve\nthe software and its documentation), it may be a better idea to let\nthe users build the documentation pages from the source, not from\nthe above URL, which serves pre-formatted documentation we cannot\ntake a patch for.\n"}]}