link broken on git man page

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link broken on git man page

From: Howard Johnson <hidden>
Date: 2016-10-16 20:42:24

This link below is broken in the man page.  (I'm on Debian Jessie).


GIT(1)                            Git Manual                            
GIT(1)

NAME
        git - the stupid content tracker

SYNOPSIS
        git [--version] [--help] [-C <path>] [-c <name>=<value>]
            [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path]
            [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects] [--bare]
            [--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>] [--namespace=<name>]
            <command> [<args>]

DESCRIPTION
        Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an
        unusually rich command set that provides both high-level 
operations and
        full access to internals.

        See gittutorial(7) to get started, then see Everyday Git[1] for a
        useful minimum set of commands. The Git User’s Manual[2] has a more
        in-depth introduction.

        After you mastered the basic concepts, you can come back to this 
page
        to learn what commands Git offers. You can learn more about 
individual
        Git commands with "git help command". gitcli(7) manual page 
gives you
        an overview of the command-line command syntax.

        Formatted and hyperlinked version of the latest Git 
documentation can
        be viewed at http://git-htmldocs.googlecode.com/git/git.html.


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Re: link broken on git man page

From: Pranit Bauva <hidden>
Date: 2016-10-16 21:05:52

Hey Howard,

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 2:12 AM, Howard Johnson
[off-list ref] wrote:
This link below is broken in the man page.  (I'm on Debian Jessie).


GIT(1)                            Git Manual
GIT(1)

NAME
       git - the stupid content tracker

SYNOPSIS
       git [--version] [--help] [-C <path>] [-c <name>=<value>]
           [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path]
           [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects] [--bare]
           [--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>] [--namespace=<name>]
           <command> [<args>]

DESCRIPTION
       Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an
       unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations
and
       full access to internals.

       See gittutorial(7) to get started, then see Everyday Git[1] for a
       useful minimum set of commands. The Git User’s Manual[2] has a more
       in-depth introduction.

       After you mastered the basic concepts, you can come back to this page
       to learn what commands Git offers. You can learn more about
individual
       Git commands with "git help command". gitcli(7) manual page gives you
       an overview of the command-line command syntax.

       Formatted and hyperlinked version of the latest Git documentation can
       be viewed at http://git-htmldocs.googlecode.com/git/git.html.


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It is fixed in the recent version 2.10.0 . The new link is
https://git.github.io/htmldocs/git.html .

Regards,
Pranit Bauva

Re: link broken on git man page

From: Jeff King <hidden>
Date: 2016-10-16 21:24:20

On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 01:42:12PM -0700, Howard Johnson wrote:
This link below is broken in the man page.  (I'm on Debian Jessie).
[...]
       Formatted and hyperlinked version of the latest Git documentation can
       be viewed at http://git-htmldocs.googlecode.com/git/git.html.
This is fixed already in f793582 (doc: git-htmldocs.googlecode.com is no
more, 2016-06-22), which is in git v2.9.1. Debian testing/unstable are
at v2.9.3, but Jessie is still on v2.1.4.

I don't know the policy for cherry-picking patches to Debian stable
releases. I think only security fixes are done immediately, but
"important" fixes get rolled into stable updates every few months.
I don't know that this is "important", but it does point to information
that grew stale outside of the release's control, and as a trivial
documentation-only change, it shouldn't cause a regression.

+cc Jonathan, who works on git packaging for Debian.

-Peff
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