Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation: Don't assume git-sh-setup and git-parse-remote are in the PATH

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 29, 2008, 19:08 UTC
Message-ID: <7vbq1kawje.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.62.0806291026310.8371@harper.uchicago.edu>

jrnieder@uchicago.edu writes:

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> How about this documentation patch? (This time tested! With hg-fast-export
> appropriately modified:
>   $ hg clone http://hg.sharesource.org/asciidoc
>   $ mkdir asciidoc-git && cd asciidoc-git
>   $ git init && hg-fast-export.sh -r /path/to/asciidoc --quiet
>   $ git checkout
>   $ sudo ./install.sh
>   $ cd /path/to/git/Documentation && make git-{sh-setup,parse-remote}.html
> I haven't tried rebuilding manpages, though.)
>
> Junio: I stole the commit message from you. I hope you don't mind.

I don't, but reading the script again, I suspect it is not clear enough that the user is also responsible for setting up GIT_DIR appropriately before using it, perhaps by sourcing git-sh-setup. We probably would want to add it in a separate patch.