From: Steffen Prohaska Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:06:21 GMT Subject: Re: A tour of git: the basics (and notes on some unfriendly messages) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Sep 29, 2007, at 5:06 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote: > >> On Sep 29, 2007, at 2:49 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: >> >>> >>> On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: >>> >>>> On Cygwin we have man, so `git help init` (or `git init --help`) >>>> work just fine to display the manual entry. No idea about the MSYS >>>> port. >>> >>> We open the html pages. That is, we don't yet, since we do not >>> generate the html pages just yet; asciidoc is a Python program, and >>> Python is not available as an MSys program as far as I know (and >>> asciidoc insists on finding files in a Unix-like file structure, >>> so we >>> _do_ need an MSys Python). >> >> I propose to clone the html pages from git.git's html branch and >> include >> them in the installer. I continue to believe that this is the >> simplest >> and fastest solution for providing html pages. > > I'm hesitant... The html branch is synced with the master branch. > And we > deviate from the master branch quite a lot ATM. We could choose a specific commit from the html branch for the WinGit release. I don't think we'll need modifications to the documentation in msysgit. Selecting an older version that matches the state of msysgit should be sufficient. Fixes to the documentation could be committed directly to git.git. >> I'll provide a patch (hopefully next week). > > This will be a good temporary workaround. The patch following soon will assume that html is available. Maybe we could add it as a submodule of msysgit? I haven't looked into the submodule mechanisms and therefore will not include it in the patch. I just manually cloned the html branch. For now, this may be sufficient to create a WinGit installer. Steffen