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Re: git-subtree manpage missing from git-manpages tarballs

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 8, 2013, 22:30 UTC
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Hi,
Stefanus Du Toit wrote:
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> The git-subtree manpage is currently missing from the git-manpages
> tarballs at https://code.google.com/p/git-core/.
>
> For example, https://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/detail?name=git-manpages-1.8.5.1.tar.gz
> does not include it.
>
> A side effect of this is that "git help subtree" fails when using git
> installed from homebrew, because the homebrew recipe uses those
> tarballs as its source of documentation.

git-subtree and its documentation are in the contrib/subtree directory. contrib/subtree/Makefile includes rules to build a manpage for it.

If the homebrew rules are installing the git-subtree command from there, perhaps they could be tweaked to build the manpage, too. What do you think?

Alternatively: I'm not sure what the status of git-subtree
maintenance is.  Is there someone taking active enough care
of it that it would make sense to promote it out of contrib/
to be a full git command installed by default?

Thanks, Jonathan

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