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Re: [PATCH] Documentation: move RelNotes into a directory of their own

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 7, 2010, 04:42 UTC
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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
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> Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> ...
>>  .../{RelNotes-1.5.0.1.txt => RelNotes/1.5.0.1.txt} |    0
>>  .../{RelNotes-1.5.0.2.txt => RelNotes/1.5.0.2.txt} |    0
> [...]
>
> Junio: Because of
>
> 	for th in \
> 		"$T"/*.html "$T"/*.txt \
> 		"$T"/howto/*.txt "$T"/howto/*.html \
> 		"$T"/technical/*.txt "$T"/technical/*.html
> 	do
> 		h=`expr "$th" : "$strip_leading"'\(.*\)'`
> 		case "$h" in
> 		index.html) continue ;;
> 		esac
> 		test -f "$h" && continue
> 		echo >&2 "# rm -f $th"
> 		rm -f "$th"
> 	done
>
> this would invalidate old URLs like
>
> 	http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes-1.7.2.3.txt
>
> , no?  Is there some easy way to set up the appropriate HTTP 301
> responses?

True, I failed to spot that one. Although I noticed that Nico didn't touch the RelNotes symlink at the top ;-).

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  1. Documentation: move RelNotes into a directory of their ownNicolas Pitre, Sep 7, 2010
  2. Jonathan NiederSep 7, 2010
  3. Junio C HamanoSep 7, 2010
  4. install-webdoc: keep installed RelNotes-*.txtJunio C Hamano, Sep 10, 2010

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