# git(1) man page has link to out-of-date googlecode site

2 messages from 2016-02-09 to 2016-02-09. Participants: Matt McCutchen, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/41377

## Matt McCutchen, 2016-02-09 20:18

Subject: git(1) man page has link to out-of-date googlecode site
Message-ID: <1455049098.2511.203.camel@mattmccutchen.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1455049098.2511.203.camel%40mattmccutchen.net

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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

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## Junio C Hamano, 2016-02-09 20:48

Subject: Re: git(1) man page has link to out-of-date googlecode site
Message-ID: <xmqqvb5x38zo.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqqvb5x38zo.fsf%40gitster.mtv.corp.google.com
In-Reply-To: <1455049098.2511.203.camel@mattmccutchen.net>

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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.

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