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Re: [bug?] docs in Documentation/technical/ do not seem to be distributed

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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 19, 2017, 17:05 UTC
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Hi,
Samuel Lijin wrote:
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> It's possible this may have nothing to do with the Git project itself
> because I have absolutely no idea how this is handled on the packaging
> side or, possibly, if this is actually intended.
>
> There are a couple of links floating around in the man pages pointing
> to pages in technical/, such as to technical/api-credentials.html in
> gitcredentials(7) [1]. On the website and man pages for Arch Linux and
> Ubuntu, this link is broken.
This sounds like a packaging bug in Arch Linux and Ubuntu.

That said, at least in Ubuntu, I am not able to reproduce it. Do you have the git-doc (or git-all, which depends on git-doc) package installed?

Hope that helps, Jonathan

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