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Re: [trinity-devel] http://scm.trinitydesktop.org/scm/git footer links to kernel.org pages broken

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:53:20 -0600
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Timothy Pearson
> <kb9vqf@...> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:41 PM, David C. Rankin
>>> <drankinatty@...> wrote:
>>>> Tim,
>>>>
>>>>  The footer urls for 'Git Tutorial' and 'Git User's Manual' lead to
>>>> 404
>>>> page
>>>> not found on all http://scm.trinitydesktop.org/scm/git pages. For
>>>> example, at
>>>> the bottom of each page, the links are:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Git Informations
>>>> --------------------------
>>>>
>>>> Git Tutorial =
>>>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gittutorial.html
>>>> Git User's Manual =
>>>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html
>>>>
>>>>  Clicking on either results in:
>>>>
>>>> Not Found
>>>>
>>>> The requested URL /pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html was not
>>>> found on
>>>> this server.
>>>>
>>>>  No biggie, just passing it along...
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
>>>>
>>> They should be pointing to:
>>> Git Tutorial = http://schacon.github.com/git/gittutorial.html
>>> Git User's Manual = http://schacon.github.com/git/user-manual.html
>>>
>>> additional links that might be useful:
>>> SVN to git crash course: http://git-scm.com/course/svn.html
>>> Everyday git commands: http://schacon.github.com/git/everyday.html
>>> Git reference: http://gitref.org/
>>>
>>
>> I don't have much control over those links; they are generated by some
>> magic part of GIT itself that I can't seem to locate on the GIT server.
>> In all likelihood this problem will resolve itself sometime in the
>> future
>> when the GIT server is upgraded for normal maintinance, but for now I
>> guess we just have to live with it.
>>
>> Tim
>>
> So you say that the README.GIT files we have in git are
> auto-generated? I thought it was something you wrote.

I was referring to the footers generated by GIT in the SCM pages. 
README.GIT is something I and Calvin wrote, and it has been updated just
now. :-)

Tim