Johannes Schindelin schrieb: > The recent work-tree cleanups exposed that the install-doc-quick > script was relying on a strange behaviour predating the work-tree > series: when setting a GIT_DIR, it was assumed that the current > working directory is the root of the working tree. > > The recent work-tree series changed that behaviour: now that you can > set the work tree explicitely, the work tree root defaults to > $GIT_DIR/.. if $GIT_DIR has a /.git suffix when that is a parent > directory of the current working directory. > -git checkout-index -a -f --prefix="$mandir"/ > +(cd "$mandir"; git checkout-index -a -f) That won't work if $mandir doesn't exist, which can happen if you install the manpages for the first time. Simply add a mkdir: (mkdir -p "$mandir" && cd "$mandir" && git checkout-index -a -f) René - To unsubscribe from this list: 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