Tilman Sauerbeck <tilman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > atm, the git release tarballs don't contain man pages. I ship *source* tarball. I also happen to do RPM for people who do not want to build from the source (btw, I do that from pure inertia). In addition, preformatted manual pages and html docs are available from man and html branches of the git.git repository. If you are building from the source, please build from the source. Everything you need is right there. If you don't build from the source, please use whatever binary distribution available out there. RPM happens to be available from kernel.org. If you are on Debian/Ubuntu/Gentoo/others, please ask your distribution packager to include the manpages and html docs, if they don't already. Why does this have to come up so often, and everybody who asks for them never supplies the patch to do so? > Or maybe offer them in a separate tarball? Things that are buildable from the source do not belong in the source tarball. If somebody wants to do this as a patch, I can be talked into accepting it, but the build procedure should build a separate tarball (or two; one for man and another for woman^Whtml). - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html