@@ -139,34 +139,11 @@ Issues of note:
139139 uses some compatibility wrappers to work on AsciiDoc 8. If you have
140140 AsciiDoc 7, try "make ASCIIDOC7=YesPlease".
141141
142- Alternatively, pre-formatted documentation is available in
143- "html" and "man" branches of the git repository itself. For
144- example, you could:
145-
146- $ mkdir manual && cd manual
147- $ git init
148- $ git fetch-pack git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git man html |
149- while read a b
150- do
151- echo $a >.git/$b
152- done
153- $ cp .git/refs/heads/man .git/refs/heads/master
154- $ git checkout
155-
156- to checkout the pre-built man pages. Also in this repository:
157-
158- $ git checkout html
159-
160- would instead give you a copy of what you see at:
161-
162- http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/
163-
164142 There are also "make quick-install-doc", "make quick-install-man"
165143 and "make quick-install-html" which install preformatted man pages
166- and html documentation.
167- This does not require asciidoc/xmlto, but it only works from within
168- a cloned checkout of git.git with these two extra branches, and will
169- not work for the maintainer for obvious chicken-and-egg reasons.
144+ and html documentation. To use these build targets, you need to
145+ clone two separate git-htmldocs and git-manpages repositories next
146+ to the clone of git itself.
170147
171148 It has been reported that docbook-xsl version 1.72 and 1.73 are
172149 buggy; 1.72 misformats manual pages for callouts, and 1.73 needs
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