Re: Improve 'git help' with basic user guide linkss
From: "John Keeping" <john@keeping.me.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 11:37 AM
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> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:11:17AM -0000, Philip Oakley wrote:
>> Obviously (?) this is generated from the command-list.txt file,
>> though I
>> don't see a shell script that would generate the
>> 'cmds-mainporcelain.txt' (etc.) files
>> (//github.com/gitster/git-htmldocs). They are also part of the
>> msysgit
>> install.
>>
>> Where should I be looking to see how they are generated?
>
> Documentation/cmd-list.perl
>
> If you look in Documentation/Makefile, cmds-mainporcelain.txt is a
> member of cmds_txt, which depends on cmd-list.made, which is a stamp
> file created after invoking cmd-list.perl.
>
>
> John
Many thanks - some easy reading while unwell ;-)
Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>