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Re: "make quick-install-man" broke recently

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 17, 2009, 01:29 UTC
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merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
> Something broke recently in "make quick-install-man".  It works
> fine if my mandir is empty, but not if a previous installation
> is there.
Broken how?

Sorry, but I obviously do not use the target myself, because I am the one who builds manpages for real and stuff them in the 'man' branch for you to check out after all.

"Something broke" is bit too vague a problem description if you expect me to look into it.

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