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bug#55821: contributing: Broken link to Git manual


From: Maxim Cournoyer
Subject: bug#55821: contributing: Broken link to Git manual
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 17:50:42 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (gnu/linux)

Hello,

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Ludo,
>
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> skribis:
>>
>>> contributing.texi contains:
>>>
>>> @pxref{submitting patches,, Submitting patches to a project, git, Git User 
>>> Manual}).
>>>
>>> However, there is no 'git' info manual.
>>
>> I think there used to be one; could it be that we’re no longer building
>> it?
>
> Indeed, support for it was contributed by David Kastrup in 2007 [0].  It
> seems we should be running 'make install-info' explicitly.  Perl is
> needed, unless that bit changed.

Fixed in 245ddc255a on core-updates.

The info node name was also wrong, that was fixed on master with
5ecbf5b1637762281992befec7fa53f966e5d0b1.  Note to attentive readers,
you'll only see the final (working) info link on core-updates or after
the next merge of it into master.

Thanks,

Maxim





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