Subject: Re: Shipping man pages?

From: "Fernando J. Pereda" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 10:10:37 +0200

On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 09:46:32AM +0200, Tilman Sauerbeck wrote:
> Hi,
> atm, the git release tarballs don't contain man pages. They can be
> generated from the asciidoc source files, which makes the build depend
> on python and asciidoc.
> 
> That's *very* inconvenient; would it be possible to include the man
> pages in the release tarball?
> 
> Or maybe offer them in a separate tarball?

Hi Tilman,

Actually Junio has 'html' and 'man' branches in his git.git repository
so you just have to use git tar-tree on them.

I do this for the Gentoo packages, you can grab a tarball from any of
our mirrors, the files are called git-{html,man}-VERSION.tar.bz2

- ferdy

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Fernando J. Pereda Garcimartín
Gentoo Developer (Alpha,net-mail,mutt,git)
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