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

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Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date
Aug 17, 2009, 14:26 UTC
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>>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

Junio> Merlyn noticed that Documentation/install-doc-quick.sh no longer correctly Junio> removes old installed documents when the target directory has a leading Junio> path that is a symlink. It turns out that "checkout-index --prefix" was Junio> broken by recent b6986d8 (git-checkout: be careful about untracked Junio> symlinks, 2009-07-29).

It's good to know I wasn't hallucinating, in any case. :)
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