Re: Git documentation at kernel.org

Clemens Buchacher [off-list ref] writes:

Please restore access to the following files when possible. Some sites
are referencing those, including kernel.org itself:

 http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git.html

The pages reachable from this used to be living documents in that every
time the 'master' branch was updated at k.org, automatically a server side
hook script generated a new set of HTML pages and updated them.

My understanding is that we do not want to run such random server side
hooks at k.org, so it no longer can be a living document anymore.

It might be a workable short term workaround to redirect

    http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/$anything

to

    http://schacon.github.com/git/$anything

although that would not give you an access to the list of documentations
for older releases, e.g.

    http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/v1.6.0/git.html

Also, it would be great if the git wiki could be made editable again.

Amen.

On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 04:23:01PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

It might be a workable short term workaround to redirect

    http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/$anything

to

    http://schacon.github.com/git/$anything

although that would not give you an access to the list of documentations
for older releases, e.g.

    http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/v1.6.0/git.html

If there is interest in this, we would be happy to host the
documentation. Let me know if that is the case, and we can give it a
much better URL than schacon.github.com. However, I tend to think that
since the project is hosted[1] at kernel.org, the official documentation
site should be there as well.

-Peff

[1] Of course, git being git, it is not really hosted _anywhere_ in
    particular. But convention thus far has said that the kernel.org
    repository is the official one.