From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:01:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: move RelNotes into a directory of their own
Message-ID: <20100907020109.GI1182@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1009062026330.19366@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> There are 108 of them already.  That's a bit more than one third of
> all the files in the Documentation directory already, and still growing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
> ---
>  .../{RelNotes-1.5.0.1.txt => RelNotes/1.5.0.1.txt} |    0
>  .../{RelNotes-1.5.0.2.txt => RelNotes/1.5.0.2.txt} |    0
[...]

Junio: Because of

	for th in \
		"$T"/*.html "$T"/*.txt \
		"$T"/howto/*.txt "$T"/howto/*.html \
		"$T"/technical/*.txt "$T"/technical/*.html
	do
		h=`expr "$th" : "$strip_leading"'\(.*\)'`
		case "$h" in
		index.html) continue ;;
		esac
		test -f "$h" && continue
		echo >&2 "# rm -f $th"
		rm -f "$th"
	done

this would invalidate old URLs like

	http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes-1.7.2.3.txt

, no?  Is there some easy way to set up the appropriate HTTP 301
responses?

Aside from that, this looks like a very good idea.