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Re: link broken on git man page

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Oct 16, 2016, 21:17 UTC
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<20161016211732.isiosoqe3zkxb7pq@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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<db083f89-b502-fe61-ce62-e7c4701f8764@BridgeportContractor.com>
On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 01:42:12PM -0700, Howard Johnson wrote:
> This link below is broken in the man page.  (I'm on Debian Jessie).
> [...]
>        Formatted and hyperlinked version of the latest Git documentation can
>        be viewed at http://git-htmldocs.googlecode.com/git/git.html.

This is fixed already in f793582 (doc: git-htmldocs.googlecode.com is no more, 2016-06-22), which is in git v2.9.1. Debian testing/unstable are at v2.9.3, but Jessie is still on v2.1.4.

I don't know the policy for cherry-picking patches to Debian stable releases. I think only security fixes are done immediately, but "important" fixes get rolled into stable updates every few months. I don't know that this is "important", but it does point to information that grew stale outside of the release's control, and as a trivial documentation-only change, it shouldn't cause a regression.

+cc Jonathan, who works on git packaging for Debian.
-Peff
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  1. Howard JohnsonOct 16, 2016
  2. Pranit BauvaOct 16, 2016
  3. Jeff KingOct 16, 2016

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