From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 18:49:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Shipping man pages?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605181142190.10823@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vodxvkws8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>



On Thu, 18 May 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> That's a consequence of _your_ choice to build the documentation
> files from the source, when I give you preformatted files in
> html/man branches and/or prepackaged binary distributions.  Even
> plain "make all" nor "make install" do not build them.

Btw, in case others didn't notice, the easiest way to install the 
pre-packaged branch is a truly disgusting hack:

	cd git
	git tar-tree man | (cd /usr/share/man ; tar xvf -)

or similar (yeah, you need to be root to do the unpack, of course, and 
you may need to change the /usr/share/man to whatever is appropriate for 
your distribution).

No need to actually even check out the 'man' branch.

		Linus