Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.6.5.4

Todd Zullinger [off-list ref] writes:

This does set MAN_BASE_URL unconditionally, pointing to kernel.org.
That way anyone building with recent DocBook and taking no new action
will have something useful in the man page links.

I'd rather see it set to an empty string by default which will essentially
keep the old output.  An alternative would be to default to the location
the install-html target installs, i.e. $HOME/share/doc/git-doc pointed by
$(htmldir) in Documentation/Makefile.

Distro people should be strongly encouraged to repoint the variable to
somewhere local that does not require connections to k.org or anywhere
outside the end-user's installation, but that is a slightly separate and
different topic.