Re: How do Git on Linux users launch/read the user-manual?

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Or are you saying that nobody on Linux uses the html format?  I
> should stop keeping the git-htmldocs.git repository up to date,
> if that is the case, but I suspect it is not.
> ...
> Or are you volunteering to update the mark-up (if necessary) so that
> user-manual would become part of "man" ("man git-user-manual",
> perhaps) suite?  That would be an excellent suggestion.

Having said that, I am not sure the way the material covered by the
user-manual is presented in is a good match for the manpage format
in the first place.  Don't modern manpage viewers, or generic pagers
that can display textual contents (which may happen to be the "man 1
git" output), or even a terminal enumrator that may happen to be
showing the output of such a pager, notice a URL and allow users to
activate on it (i.e. visit the HTML document the URL points at, by
opening the URL in an already-running browser, or in a new instance
of a browser)?  So perhaps a better solution for those who live in a
text terminal and view our documentation via "git help -m git" or
even "man git" would be to write a full URL to reach a version of
user manual available to the user, perhaps with file:/// URL "as
text" in the man output?  Then you do not have to reformat the user
manual in the manpage format or anything silly like that.

Hmm?