From: Randal L. Schwartz Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:33:24 GMT Subject: Re: "make quick-install-man" broke recently Message-ID: <86iqgn8brv.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> In-Reply-To: <7vy6pj449g.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> >>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano writes: Junio> "Something broke" is bit too vague a problem description if you expect Junio> me to look into it. Very sorry. Let me include some text. % rm -rf /opt/git/share/man % make prefix=/opt/git quick-install-man make -C Documentation quick-install-man SUBDIR ../ make[2]: `GIT-VERSION-FILE' is up to date. '/bin/sh' ./install-doc-quick.sh origin/man /opt/git/share/man % make prefix=/opt/git quick-install-man make -C Documentation quick-install-man SUBDIR ../ make[2]: `GIT-VERSION-FILE' is up to date. '/bin/sh' ./install-doc-quick.sh origin/man /opt/git/share/man error: git checkout-index: unable to create file /opt/git/share/man/man1/git-add.1 (File exists) error: git checkout-index: unable to create file /opt/git/share/man/man1/git-am.1 (File exists) error: git checkout-index: unable to create file /opt/git/share/man/man1/git-annotate.1 (File exists) error: git checkout-index: unable to create file /opt/git/share/man/man1/git-apply.1 (File exists) [...] So it fails the second time. This is new behavior. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion