Re: [ANNOUNCE] Guilt v0.31

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 8, 2008, 19:17 UTC
Message-ID: <7vmyiifnwa.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <36ca99e90809081150v4ad6e7a0n72b5cca39e02b1bc@mail.gmail.com>

"Bert Wesarg" <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> writes:

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> I must admit, that I don't like these extra tarballs with docs. I
> always expect, that the manpages are nicely installed if I type 'make
> install' (or at least with a install-doc target). But I need to
> download this extra package, and extract it to the right place, there
> is no Makefile whatsoever. In case of git its really annoying, because
> the help mechanism is relying on the manpages (i.e. git help <cmd> or
> git <cmd> --help, but you know this).

There is no need to feel "it[']s really annoying", as install-doc from the tarball distribution works out of the box.

I used 1.6.0.1 in the demonstration below, but this is nothing new in that version but has been like this for quite some time (it is how sample RPMs binary packages are built, so the procedure ought to work):

    $ ls -1 /usr/bin/git ;# to show there is no other "git" on this box
    ls: /usr/bin/git: No such file or directory
    $ mkdir /var/tmp/16
    $ cd /var/tmp/16
    $ wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.6.0.1.tar.gz
    $ tar xf git-1.6.0.1.tar.gz
    $ cd git-1.6.0.1
    $ make prefix=/var/tmp/16test install install-doc
    $ PATH=/var/tmp/16test/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
    $ export PATH
    $ unset MANPATH
    $ git help cat-file | cat -s | tail -n 8
    Reformatting git-cat-file(1), please wait...
    DOCUMENTATION
           Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list
           <git@vger.kernel.org>.

    GIT
           Part of the git(1) suite

    Git 1.6.0.1                       09/08/2008                   GIT-CAT-FILE(1)

The extra tarballs for documentation are also given as courtesy because they are supposed to be platform independent and some people do not want to generate them themselves (even though they could).

Either be thankful for the availability of tarballs, or ignore them and generate them yourself --- it's your choice.