Re: Anybody know a website with up-to-date git documentation?

From: Drew Northup <n1xim.email@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 17, 2013, 13:21 UTC
Message-ID: <CAM9Z-nmoCQ-uXwMCxCn4iRjUrxDf1r9Rb1ap_PQSra-FneECAA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130130230709.GA7787@sita-lt.atc.tcs.com>

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 09:18:24AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Max Horn <max@quendi.de> writes:
>> > On 30.01.2013, at 16:59, Sitaram Chamarty wrote:
>> >
>> >> I'm curious... what's wrong with 'git checkout html' from the git repo
>> >> and just browsing them using a web browser?

>> Armed with that knowledge, I think Sitaram may have something like
>> this:
>>
>>       [remote "htmldocs"]

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> Hmm; I don't recall ever doing that.  But I just realised that
> my "html" branch is stuck at 1.7.7:
>
>     $ git branch -v -v | grep html
>       html   8fb66e5 [origin/html] Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.7.7-138-g7f41b6
>
> Is it possible that upto that point, the main git.git repo did
> carry this branch also?

Yes.

n1xim@atom:~/tmp/git_dev/git$ git branch -a
  dn/utf16_check
* master
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/html
  remotes/origin/maint
  remotes/origin/man
  remotes/origin/master
  remotes/origin/next
  remotes/origin/pu
  remotes/origin/todo
n1xim@atom:~/tmp/git_dev/git$ git remote show origin
* remote origin
  Fetch URL: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
  Push  URL: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
  HEAD branch: master
  Remote branches:
    maint                    tracked
    master                   tracked
    next                     tracked
    pu                       tracked
    refs/remotes/origin/html stale (use 'git remote prune' to remove)
    refs/remotes/origin/man  stale (use 'git remote prune' to remove)
    todo                     tracked
  Local branch configured for 'git pull':
    master merges with remote master
  Local ref configured for 'git push':
    master pushes to master (local out of date)

n1xim@atom:~/tmp/git_dev/git$ git log refs/remotes/origin/html
commit 5723afaf3a61cef537e1f4dfa88f8faf31060ef0
Author: Junio C Hamano <junio@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed Aug 31 00:49:23 2011 +0000

    Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.7.7-rc0-72-g4b5ea

n1xim@atom:~/tmp/git_dev/git$ git log refs/remotes/origin/man
commit e193e4189407968b3c46992e3eac60d38424286e
Author: Junio C Hamano <junio@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed Aug 31 00:49:25 2011 +0000

    Autogenerated manpages for v1.7.7-rc0-72-g4b5ea

....I haven't bothered to plunge and expunge my local repo yet as I never actually made use of those branches.

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