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diff --git a/_posts/2009-07-04-git-html-help.textile b/_posts/2009-07-04-git-html-help.textile deleted file mode 100644 index 6426601..0000000 --- a/_posts/2009-07-04-git-html-help.textile +++ /dev/null @@ -1,50 +0,0 @@ ---- -layout: default -title: Installing Git HTML help -description: How to install the local git HTML help files -categories: setup ---- - -This guide will help you install the local git HTML help files and set git to use them by default instead of the man pages. - -Most git installations will install man files for help, but not the HTML help files (the same files seen on git's "online documentation":http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git-core/docs/). Installing these help files is a fairly simple process. - -h2. Windows - -"Msysgit":http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ installs and sets the HTML help files as the default automatically. You don't need to do anything! - -h2. OSX - -The following commands were run on an installation of the "git-osx-installer":http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/. Your documentation path may be different, pay attention to the output of @git help --web commit@ for where your git is set to look for the HTML files. - -<pre class="terminal">$ git help --web commit -fatal: '/usr/local/git/share/doc/git-doc': not a documentation directory. - -$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git -Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/tekkub/git/.git/ -remote: Counting objects: 101588, done. -remote: Compressing objects: 100% (27214/27214), done. -remote: Total 101588 (delta 73797), reused 100304 (delta 72681) -Receiving objects: 100% (101588/101588), 24.50 MiB | 377 KiB/s, done. -Resolving deltas: 100% (73797/73797), done. -Checking out files: 100% (1652/1652), done. - -$ cd git -$ make quick-install-html -GIT_VERSION = 1.6.3.3.385.g60647 -make -C Documentation quick-install-html - GEN doc.dep - SUBDIR ../ -make[2]: `GIT-VERSION-FILE' is up to date. - SUBDIR ../ -make[2]: `GIT-VERSION-FILE' is up to date. -'/bin/sh' ./install-doc-quick.sh origin/html /Users/tekkub/share/doc/git-doc - -$ cd /usr/local/git/share/ -$ sudo mkdir doc -$ cd doc/ -$ sudo mv ~/share/doc/git-doc . -$ git help --web commit - (web browser launches) - -$ git config --global help.format web</pre> |