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

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Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
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Jan 30, 2013, 15:59 UTC
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Max Horn <max@quendi.de> wrote:
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> On 30.01.2013, at 12:54, John Keeping wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:46:47PM +0100, Max Horn wrote:
>>> does anybody know a website where one can view that latest git
>>> documentation? Here, "latest" means "latest release" (though being
>>> also able to access it for "next" would of course be a nice bonus,
>>> likewise for older versions). While I do have those docs on my local
>>> machine, I would like to access them online, too (e.g. easier to
>>> pointer people at this, I can access it from other machines, etc.).
>>
>> How about http://git-htmldocs.googlecode.com/git/ ?
>>
>> It's just a directory listing of the git-htmldocs repository that Junio
>> maintains - the latest update was yesterday: Autogenerated HTML docs for
>> v1.8.1.2-422-g08c0e.
>>
>> [I didn't know Google Code let you view the repository like that, but I
>> got there by clicking the "raw" link against one of the files so I
>> assume it's not likely to go away.]
>>
>
> Thanks John, that looks pretty good!
>
> In addition, I just discovered
>
>    http://manned.org/git-remote-helpers/2b9e4c86
>
> which contains git docs from Arch Linux, Debian, FreeBSD and Ubuntu packages. And since Arch tends to have the latest, so does manned.org. And best, it even lets me browser to older versions of a file.
>
> So, taken together, I guess that solves my problem -- with John's link, I can see the bleeding edge versions, with manned.org the latest released version (as soon as Arch Linux catches up, which seems to be pretty quick :-).

I'm curious... what's wrong with 'git checkout html' from the git repo and just browsing them using a web browser?

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  1. Max HornJan 30, 2013
  2. John KeepingJan 30, 2013
  3. Sebastian StaudtJan 30, 2013
  4. Max HornJan 30, 2013
  5. Sebastian StaudtJan 30, 2013
  6. Max HornJan 30, 2013
  7. Sitaram ChamartyJan 30, 2013
  8. Max HornJan 30, 2013
  9. Junio C HamanoJan 30, 2013
  10. Sitaram ChamartyJan 30, 2013
  11. Drew NorthupFeb 17, 2013
  12. Junio C HamanoJan 30, 2013

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