From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 20:48:59 GMT
Subject: Re: git(1) man page has link to out-of-date googlecode site
Message-ID: <xmqqvb5x38zo.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1455049098.2511.203.camel@mattmccutchen.net>

Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net> writes:

> I noticed that near the top of the git(1) man page, there is a link to
> http://git-htmldocs.googlecode.com/git/git.html, which apparently has
> not been updated since August 2015

Thanks for noticing.  Yes, that should be corrected.

> Should this link just be removed, or replaced with
> http://git-scm.com/docs (which lists a subset of the pages) or perhaps
> http://git-scm.com/docs/git?  I will be happy to write the patch.

The former URL adds GitHub's own Value-Add like pretty icons and
categorization, which may be more appropriate than the latter URL.
Both are a bit more than just "formatted and hyperlinked version" so
the phrasing may want to be also changed.

	An online documentation based on a recent version of Git can
	be viewed at ...

perhaps?

Thanks.