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Re: why the html and man versions of git-diff are different?

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Dec 16, 2010, 21:55 UTC
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<20101216215506.GB10480@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 09:43:45PM +0000, Leo wrote:
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> I compared the html version of git-diff found in
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-diff.html and the
> man version from
> http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-manpages-1.7.3.4.tar.bz2
> 
> The man version says gitrevisions(1), which is incorrect since it is in
> man7.

Because it was fixed recently, and the html documention on kernel.org uses the "master" branch, whereas that commit did not make it into the maintenance release 1.7.3.4. It will be fixed in the manpages for git-1.7.4.

-Peff
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