Sorry about the response positioning... I can send you a pull request on github, if you want 😉
-----Original Message----- From: git-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:git-ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Junio C Hamano Sent: December 11, 2017 6:27 PM To: Randall S. Becker <rsbec...@nexbridge.com> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Proposed] Externalize man/html ref for quick-install-man and quick-install-html "Randall S. Becker" <rsbec...@nexbridge.com> writes: > diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile index > 3e39e28..4f1e6df 100644 > --- a/Documentation/Makefile > +++ b/Documentation/Makefile > @@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ MAN_TXT = $(MAN1_TXT) $(MAN5_TXT) $(MAN7_TXT) > MAN_XML = $(patsubst %.txt,%.xml,$(MAN_TXT)) MAN_HTML = $(patsubst > %.txt,%.html,$(MAN_TXT)) > > +GIT_MAN_REF = master > + > OBSOLETE_HTML += everyday.html > OBSOLETE_HTML += git-remote-helpers.html DOC_HTML = $(MAN_HTML) > $(OBSOLETE_HTML) @@ -415,14 +417,14 @@ require-manrepo:: > then echo "git-manpages repository must exist at $(MAN_REPO)"; > exit 1; fi > > quick-install-man: require-manrepo > - '$(SHELL_PATH_SQ)' ./install-doc-quick.sh $(MAN_REPO) > $(DESTDIR)$(mandir) > + '$(SHELL_PATH_SQ)' ./install-doc-quick.sh $(MAN_REPO) > $(DESTDIR)$(mandir) $(GIT_MAN_REF) I suspect that this patch is line-wrapped and unusable for the final application, but I think what the change wants to do makes total sense---we are already letting the builder specify where the other repositories for docs are, and it is not such a big stretch to let them also say which branch or tag they want their documentation from.
