# Application to install man pages.

2 messages from 2007-10-18 to 2007-10-19. Participants: Evan Carroll, Shawn O. Pearce.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/10366

## Evan Carroll, 2007-10-18 18:59

Subject: Application to install man pages.
Message-ID: <428b865e0710181159i7a12f2b7y22619f0eaf36d2c1@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/428b865e0710181159i7a12f2b7y22619f0eaf36d2c1%40mail.gmail.com

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This is a one liner but might help for simply a quick install of the
git manpages.

>From f5797d786fd4a6f9633054bb0f0ce894a06d6650 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: root <root@x60s.(none)>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:45:16 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] install_man.sh script which installs the man pages

---
 install_man.sh |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 install_man.sh

diff --git a/install_man.sh b/install_man.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..b722425
--- /dev/null
+++ b/install_man.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#/bin/sh
+ cp -R --copy-contents ./man* /usr/local/man
-- 
1.5.3.4.206.g58ba4


I was also wondering if it might be useful to have a command in the
master branch of the git repo that switches branches and installs the
man pages.. possibly as run in the makefile if .git exists then switch
branches, and run install_man.sh. Just an idea.

-- 
Evan Carroll
System Lord of the Internets
me@evancarroll.com
832-445-8877

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## Shawn O. Pearce, 2007-10-19 01:16

Subject: Re: Application to install man pages.
Message-ID: <20071019011640.GS14735@spearce.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20071019011640.GS14735%40spearce.org
In-Reply-To: <428b865e0710181159i7a12f2b7y22619f0eaf36d2c1@mail.gmail.com>

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Evan Carroll <me@evancarroll.com> wrote:
> This is a one liner but might help for simply a quick install of the
> git manpages.
...
> +#/bin/sh
> + cp -R --copy-contents ./man* /usr/local/man
> -- 

Isn't this covered by the "make -C Documentation quick-install"?
Which is what "make quick-install-doc" does in the top level Makefile.

-- 
Shawn.

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