Re: [PATCH] doc: git-htmldocs.googlecode.com is no more

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 28, 2016, 18:03 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqpor18a2n.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpq8txwtmg8.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Just wondering, who updates
>>> https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/
>>> and why hasn't it been updated in a while?
>>> (currently it says Last updated 2015-06-06 at the bottom)
>>
>> Nobody. It is too cumbersome to use their upload tool to update many
>> files (it is geared towards updating a handful of tarballs at a time).
>
> Then, I guess it would make sense to remove it to avoid pointing users
> to outdated docs?

Actually, it turns out that k.org folks have an auto-builder that updates the documentation set for each release. It hasn't been run since v2.5 days, though, until very recently.

I was told that the above URL currently should be showing v2.9.0 docs.

The rule for https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/ currently is that it shows documentation set for a released, but this is likely to change in the future (s/a released/the latest release/ at the minimum, with some definition of "the latest").

Also https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/v2.4.0/git.html would give you the documentation set for that version.