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@@ -139,34 +139,11 @@ Issues of note: uses some compatibility wrappers to work on AsciiDoc 8. If you have AsciiDoc 7, try "make ASCIIDOC7=YesPlease". - Alternatively, pre-formatted documentation is available in - "html" and "man" branches of the git repository itself. For - example, you could: - - $ mkdir manual && cd manual - $ git init - $ git fetch-pack git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git man html | - while read a b - do - echo $a >.git/$b - done - $ cp .git/refs/heads/man .git/refs/heads/master - $ git checkout - - to checkout the pre-built man pages. Also in this repository: - - $ git checkout html - - would instead give you a copy of what you see at: - - http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/ - There are also "make quick-install-doc", "make quick-install-man" and "make quick-install-html" which install preformatted man pages - and html documentation. - This does not require asciidoc/xmlto, but it only works from within - a cloned checkout of git.git with these two extra branches, and will - not work for the maintainer for obvious chicken-and-egg reasons. + and html documentation. To use these build targets, you need to + clone two separate git-htmldocs and git-manpages repositories next + to the clone of git itself. It has been reported that docbook-xsl version 1.72 and 1.73 are buggy; 1.72 misformats manual pages for callouts, and 1.73 needs |