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Re: Git documentation at kernel.org

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 10, 2012, 21:38 UTC
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Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> writes:
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> Hmm... good point.  That does make it hard.  I could imagine making it
> work by having separate hierarchies, and then using apache rewrite
> rules so that anything that doesn't begin with vX.Y.Z in the top level
> of software/scm/git/docs/* gets redirected to LATEST/*, where LATEST is
> a symlink that is managed via kup.

We could move vX.Y.Zs out of scm/git/docs/ hierarchy. The existing links from external sites rarely point at a documentation page of a specific version, I suspect.

People can be trained to look at scm/git/old-docs/vX.Y.Z when they want to see how older command set looked like, even those who know that in olden days they would have consulted scm/git/docs/vX.Y.Z for that information; they are much less of a problem than existing pages whose links want to stay working.

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  1. Petr OnderkaFeb 7, 2012
  2. Clemens BuchacherFeb 8, 2012
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2012
  4. Matthieu MoyFeb 10, 2012
  5. Theodore TsoFeb 10, 2012
  6. Konstantin RyabitsevFeb 10, 2012
  7. Ted Ts'oFeb 10, 2012
  8. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2012
  9. Ted Ts'oFeb 10, 2012
  10. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2012
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  13. Jeff KingFeb 10, 2012
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  16. Scott ChaconFeb 12, 2012
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