From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2013 22:30:21 GMT
Subject: Re: git-subtree manpage missing from git-manpages tarballs
Message-ID: <20131208223020.GB9108@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CABGRy0o3AJLMhmVJL8XAjrnQJd=yuV+1Q=cLToetnhmB0V=hfA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Stefanus Du Toit wrote:

> 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