Re: [BUG] Broken links in Git Documentation/user-manual.txt

From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Date: Oct 14, 2015, 13:40 UTC
Message-ID: <20151014134042.GD19802@serenity.lan>
In-Reply-To: <vpqk2qp52am.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr>

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 09:37:05AM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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> Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi list,
> >
> > In https://git-scm.com/docs/user-manual.html , all links to the
> > glossary[1] are broken.
> 
> Actually, the links themselves are fine, but the destimation is broken.
> 
> The doc is supposed to look like this :
> 
>   https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html#def_head
> 
> with the glossary at the end. On
> https://git-scm.com/docs/user-manual.html, the glossary is displayed as
> verbatim text.
> 
> This does not seem to be a bug in our user-manual.txt, but in the way
> it's processed by git-scm.com.

I think it was an issue in the source, but was fixed by be510e0 (Documentation: fix section header mark-up, 2015-09-25). I'm not sure when/how git-scm.com rebulds its documentation, but I'm pretty sure that fix hasn't made it into a release yet so I doubt the site has picked it up.

> I reported the issue there:
> 
> https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/issues/605