git(1) man page has link to out-of-date googlecode site

Matt McCutchen· Feb 9, 2016, 20:18 UTC · lore

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 (https://code.google.com/archive/p/git-htmldocs/source/default/commits). 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.

Matt

Junio C Hamano· Feb 9, 2016, 20:48 UTC · re: Matt McCutchen · lore

Re: git(1) man page has link to out-of-date googlecode site

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.