Re: git-subtree manpage missing from git-manpages tarballs

From: Stefanus Du Toit <sjdutoit@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 9, 2013, 00:40 UTC
Message-ID: <CABGRy0qNqTotQFp+GnCNVEY09ymD2yXHb8YMG0KUhpk975ijSA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20131208223020.GB9108@google.com>

Hi Jonathan,

On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

> git-subtree and its documentation are in the contrib/subtree
> directory.  contrib/subtree/Makefile includes rules to build
> a manpage for it.

Thanks - I guess git-manpages generally doesn't include bits from contrib then.

> If the homebrew rules are installing the git-subtree command
> from there, perhaps they could be tweaked to build the manpage,
> too.  What do you think?

The homebrew recipe states:

    # We could build the manpages ourselves, but the build process depends
    # on many other packages, and is somewhat crazy, this way is easier.

So while I'm sure it's possible it sounds like the current process is preferred.

> Alternatively: I'm not sure what the status of git-subtree
> maintenance is.  Is there someone taking active enough care
> of it that it would make sense to promote it out of contrib/
> to be a full git command installed by default?

This would be most excellent; I'm only starting to use subtrees but after some painful experiences with submodules I really like the subtree model so far.

Thanks,

Stefanus