"Randall S. Becker" <[email protected]> writes:
> Having the git-manpages repo available is fantastic for platforms
> that cannot easily build documentation on demand, for example,
> when too many dependencies that do not build properly.
>
> It would be really nice to have a version of install-doc-quick.sh to either:
>
> 1. Use whatever version is checked out in git-manpages; or
>
> 2. Use the proper commit associated with the git commit being installed
> (0a8e923 for v2.6.0 , as an example); or
>
> 3. Allow the commit to be passed through the Documentation Makefile on demand
> so that any version of documentation can be installed.
Do you mean something like this so that you can say "not the tip of
the master branch but this one?"
Documentation/install-doc-quick.sh | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/install-doc-quick.sh
b/Documentation/install-doc-quick.sh
index 327f69bcf5..83764f7537 100755
--- a/Documentation/install-doc-quick.sh
+++ b/Documentation/install-doc-quick.sh
@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@
repository=${1?repository}
destdir=${2?destination}
+head=${3+master}
+GIT_DIR=
-head=master GIT_DIR=
for d in "$repository/.git" "$repository"
do
if GIT_DIR="$d" git rev-parse refs/heads/master >/dev/null 2>&1
