Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] Doc: git.txt: remove backticks from link and add git-scm.com/docs

From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: May 16, 2019, 11:25 UTC
Message-ID: <d79d5e70-ec3a-c6ca-b23d-a44edf2579d2@iee.org>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqbm035fhx.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On 16/05/2019 02:56, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:
>
>> While checking the html formatted git(1) manual page, it was noted
>> that the link to https://git.github.io/htmldocs/git.html was formatted
>> as code. Remove the backticks.
> Good.  I just ran
>
> 	$ git grep '`https*://' Documentation/
>
> to see if any hits I see are for the real URL the user may want to
> click on.  There are some that are pointing at real sites, but I do
> not think users would want to clickon  many of them while reading the
> documentation.

I'd had a quick brows and mainly found example.com ;-) Any other excepts were at the other end of the doc relative to git(1)...

>
> Except perhaps for these to see what's there:
>
> Documentation/git-archimport.txt:	Attempt to auto-register archives at `http://mirrors.sourcecontrol.net`

That domain is gone. Whole line should probably be removed.

> Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt:* cvs2git (part of cvs2svn), `http://subversion.apache.org/`
>

Still there. Still updated - last news 2019-04-24. Could remove backticks.

Philip