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Re: git docs on kernel.org too new?

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Feb 1, 2007, 19:20 UTC
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<20070201192057.GC18608@spearce.org>
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Stefano Spinucci <virgo977virgo@gmail.com> wrote:
> this isn't the first time someone is confused by git docs, and I guess
> why we can't have a documentation page as
> http://www.python.org/doc/versions/

Indeed. Or at least only post docs which correspond to a downloadable tar file?

Perhaps we could embed in at least the HTML version of the docs the output of `GIT-VERSION-GEN` ? Then users at least have a chance at knowing the docs are referring to 1.5.0-rc3 and not to 1.4.4.4?

-- 
Shawn.
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