From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:37:31 GMT
Subject: Re: Improve 'git help' with basic user guide linkss
Message-ID: <6A83E216C322496CB2DEDFB2A68FE28F@PhilipOakley>
In-Reply-To: <20130212113731.GA13501@farnsworth.metanate.com>

From: "John Keeping" <john@keeping.me.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 11:37 AM
> 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 ;-)