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Re: Anybody know a website with up-to-date git documentation?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 30, 2013, 17:18 UTC
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Max Horn <max@quendi.de> writes:
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> On 30.01.2013, at 16:59, Sitaram Chamarty wrote:
>
>> I'm curious... what's wrong with 'git checkout html' from the git repo
>> and just browsing them using a web browser?
>
> Hm, do you mean "make html", perhaps? At least I couldn't figure
> out what "git checkout html" should do, but out of curiosity gave
> it a try and got an error...

Perhaps some information from "A note from the maintainer" (posted to this list from time to time) is lacking. Some excerpts:

    You can browse the HTML manual pages at:
            http://git-htmldocs.googlecode.com/git/git.html
    Preformatted documentation from the tip of the "master" branch can be
    found in:
            git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git-{htmldocs,manpages}.git/
            git://repo.or.cz/git-{htmldocs,manpages}.git/
            ...

Armed with that knowledge, I think Sitaram may have something like this:

	[remote "htmldocs"]
		url = git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git-htmldocs.git/
		fetch = +refs/heads/master:refs/heads/html
and does
	git fetch htmldocs
        git checkout html
You can, too, of course ;-)
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  1. Max HornJan 30, 2013
  2. John KeepingJan 30, 2013
  3. Sebastian StaudtJan 30, 2013
  4. Max HornJan 30, 2013
  5. Sebastian StaudtJan 30, 2013
  6. Max HornJan 30, 2013
  7. Sitaram ChamartyJan 30, 2013
  8. Max HornJan 30, 2013
  9. Junio C HamanoJan 30, 2013
  10. Sitaram ChamartyJan 30, 2013
  11. Drew NorthupFeb 17, 2013
  12. Junio C HamanoJan 30, 2013

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