Re: A tour of git: the basics (and notes on some unfriendly messages)

From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Sep 29, 2007, 07:44 UTC
Message-ID: <4D958F04-D531-416A-9FB4-E4119BEC6905@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709290144310.28395@racer.site>

On Sep 29, 2007, at 2:49 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>
>> On Cygwin we have man, so `git help init` (or `git init --help`) work
>> just fine to display the manual entry.  No idea about the MSYS port.
>
> We open the html pages.  That is, we don't yet, since we do not  
> generate
> the html pages just yet; asciidoc is a Python program, and Python  
> is not
> available as an MSys program as far as I know (and asciidoc insists on
> finding files in a Unix-like file structure, so we _do_ need an MSys
> Python).
>

I propose to clone the html pages from git.git's html branch and include them in the installer. I continue to believe that this is the simplest and fastest solution for providing html pages.

I'll provide a patch (hopefully next week).

	Steffen