Re: Bad Man Page URLs

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Apr 6, 2012, 07:23 UTC
Message-ID: <20120406072349.GA27115@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vzkap1gck.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 12:15:07AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> > 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/...".
> 
> I think git-manpages repo already sets the base to the old k.org location
> (see dodoc.sh in the 'todo' branch), but I forgot about that setting when
> I cobbled together the tarball releasing script to be run on my home box
> in a hurry.

Ah, I didn't notice that. The k.org location is dead, of course, but I hope we will eventually turn it into at least a redirect to the official location.

Scott, I know you've been working hard on the git-scm.com redesign. Any word on when that will be ready, or whether it will contain a mirror of the reference docs?

> I do not know how well things would behave if we set it to "git-htmldocs/"
> as Jonathan suggests, but we will see what happens.

Users will see reference to "git-htmldocs/everyday.html" in their manpage. Not quite as nice as a real URL, but at least not entirely misleading.

-Peff