Re: Bad Man Page URLs

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Apr 6, 2012, 05:46 UTC
Message-ID: <20120406054637.GA25301@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20120406042215.GA3938@burratino>

On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 11:22:15PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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> Jeff King wrote:
> 
> > So I think technically the docbook part of the toolchain would be the
> > right place to fix this. But it may be easier to hack around it at the
> > asciidoc level.
> 
> Isn't this what MAN_BASE_URL in Documentation/Makefile is for?  I
> don't think a lower level fix is needed.

Thanks for a dose of sanity. Having been here so long, I sometimes think that if something exists in git, I would already know about it. But sometimes that is not true. :)

Junio, what do you think of building the git-manpages-* tarballs (and the git-manpages repo) with MAN_BASE_URL set to "http://some-official-place/"? As of now, they mention "file:///home/junio/...".

We could need to have an official place, of course. I'd rather not use http://schacon.github.com/git/docs because these links will be embedded in release tarballs. Maybe it is time to make http://git-scm.com/docs happen.

-Peff