From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 21:31:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] Documentation: fix linkgit references
Message-ID: <20160504213149.GA22828@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8tzpfrt0.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 02:15:39PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > make sense? Or a simpler but non-streaming spelling:
> >
> >   my @files = map { chomp; $_ } `git ls-files`;
> 
> I forgot to say that I wanted not to rely on "git" (i.e. OK to use
> this on tarball extract).

Oh, that's a good idea.

> > Or just taking the list of files on the command line as your original
> > did, and feeding `ls-files` from the caller. That also lets you do
> > "link-gitlink git-foo.txt", etc.
> 
> Yes, I think that is the most sensible.

Yeah, and then the Makefile can drive it from $(MAN_TXT), etc, without
requiring git (which I think is what you were getting at, but just
spelling it out for myself and the list).

-Peff