> Von: "Eric S. Raymond" <e...@thyrsus.com> The commands for getting the new groff-git have some errors.
> 1. git init groff-git > 2. cd groff-git One should not go into that directory for downloading. The downloaded file is better outside the coming archive. > 3. wget http://www.catb.org/esr/groff-git.fi.gz/ This line 3. is wrong. groff-git.fi.gz is only a file, not a directory. So the final slash has to be omitted. After the download, one has to go into groff-git: so `cd groff-init' makes sense here > 4. gzip <groff-git.fi.gz | git fast-import `gzip' alone is wrong, it must be `gunzip' or `gzip -d'. As the gz-file is now in the upper directory, `../' must be added, so `<../groff-git.fi.gz' must be used. > 5. git checkout to materialize the files. > 6. rm groff-git.fi.gz This must be `rm ../groff-git.fi.gz' - if at all. ### So the more correct command set is $ cd SOME_DIR # go to a suitable directory with write access $ git init groff-git $ wget http://www.catb.org/esr/groff-git.fi.gz $ cd groff-git $ gunzip <../groff-git.fi.gz | git fast-import $ git checkout $ rm ../groff-git.fi.gz # maybe, only if you want What about the easier `git clone ...'? Bernd Warken
