RE: howto-index not found

["Bulgrien, Dennis" <Dennis.Bulgrien@astronics.com>]

The github tracker redirects back to this group, saying "These pages are generated from git man pages, so we have no control over it. Have you reported it to the community at https://git-scm.com/community ?"

[1]: https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/issues/1521

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2021 2:27 PM
To: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Cc: Bulgrien, Dennis <Dennis.Bulgrien@astronics.com>; git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: howto-index not found

On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 02:58:36PM -0500, Eric Sunshine wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 2:18 PM Bulgrien, Dennis
> <Dennis.Bulgrien@astronics.com> wrote:
> > The https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgit-scm.com%2Fdocs%2Fgittutorial-2&amp;data=04%7C01%7CDennis.Bulgrien%40astronics.com%7C35dd885da77a4dcd278c08d8c94b440e%7Ca2ce8a60084049b7938997ad811e2924%7C1%7C0%7C637480672478665490%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&amp;sdata=r4A4aBuyi8gsu0gveUsQTEcIwsWjFM8VkzqJl0AKuhE%3D&amp;reserved=0 says 'For some interesting examples of Git use, see the <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgit-scm.com%2Fdocs%2Fhowto-index&amp;data=04%7C01%7CDennis.Bulgrien%40astronics.com%7C35dd885da77a4dcd278c08d8c94b440e%7Ca2ce8a60084049b7938997ad811e2924%7C1%7C0%7C637480672478665490%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&amp;sdata=JC7dUie72RpiB6kAqXULNBh8FDM43zuF9e1RDUJGzhE%3D&amp;reserved=0">howtos</a>"' but that does not exist and redirects to https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgit-scm.com%2Fdocs&amp;data=04%7C01%7CDennis.Bulgrien%40astronics.com%7C35dd885da77a4dcd278c08d8c94b440e%7Ca2ce8a60084049b7938997ad811e2924%7C1%7C0%7C637480672478665490%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&amp;sdata=QOqO1zrsjxNSt%2BeIkK8i78CTEJbGkX3L%2Fx4V9Bc04UQ%3D&amp;reserved=0. Where should that link be updates it point?
>
> `howtos-index` does get generated by the Git project but doesn't
> appear to be published on the git-scm site for some reason. git-scm is
> maintained as a separate project[1], so the best thing to do is to
> report the problem there using their bug tracker[2].
>
> [1]:
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There's already an issue here:

  https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fgit%2Fgit-scm.com%2Fissues%2F1521&amp;data=04%7C01%7CDennis.Bulgrien%40astronics.com%7C35dd885da77a4dcd278c08d8c94b440e%7Ca2ce8a60084049b7938997ad811e2924%7C1%7C0%7C637480672478675488%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&amp;sdata=YnvAqClHZb3Ne5RtIpSQO%2BZI6IbgmWrqRjZhYaaUjys%3D&amp;reserved=0

But I think there's a larger problem within Git's manpages themselves.
There is no manpage version of many of the pages, yet git.txt still links to them. So "man git" on my system points to to several file:// urls that doesn't exist. This is true of my custom-built Git, but I think also true for some system package setups (e.g., Debian's "git"
package ships the manpages, but you don't get the html versions unless you install "git-doc" as well).

-Peff

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