From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:06:59 GMT
Subject: Re: A tour of git: the basics (and notes on some unfriendly messages)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709291606010.28395@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <4D958F04-D531-416A-9FB4-E4119BEC6905@zib.de>

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.

> I'll provide a patch (hopefully next week).

This will be a good temporary workaround.

Ciao,
Dscho