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Re: Improve 'git help' with basic user guide linkss

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John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Date
Feb 12, 2013, 11:37 UTC
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<20130212113731.GA13501@farnsworth.metanate.com>
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On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:11:17AM -0000, Philip Oakley wrote:
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> Obviously (?) this is generated from the command-list.txt file, though I 
> don't see a shell script that would generate the 
> 'cmds-mainporcelain.txt' (etc.) files 
> (//github.com/gitster/git-htmldocs). They are also part of the msysgit 
> install.
> 
> Where should I be looking to see how they are generated?
Documentation/cmd-list.perl

If you look in Documentation/Makefile, cmds-mainporcelain.txt is a member of cmds_txt, which depends on cmd-list.made, which is a stamp file created after invoking cmd-list.perl.

John
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