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Add a note in the on-line Git book about installing the man pages?

From
DTDavid Tonhofer <d.tonhofer@m-plify.com>
Date
Apr 2, 2013, 16:53 UTC
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Hi,

It seems the git man pages (or HTML pages) are not installed by default when you install git as described in the http://git-scm.com/book

I propose to add a note to http://git-scm.com/book/en/Getting-Started-Installing-Git along those lines:

Getting the git manpages from "https://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list" and unpack them (supposing you installed your git into "/opt/git"):

TARGET=/opt/git VERSION=`$TARGET/bin/git --version | awk '{print $3}' | cut -d '.' -f1-3` wget "http://git-core.googlecode.com/files/git-manpages-${VERSION}.tar.gz" mkdir "$TARGET/share/man" tar xz -C "$TARGET/share/man" -f "git-manpages-${VERSION}.tar.gz"

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  1. David TonhoferApr 2, 2013
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 2, 2013

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