On 29 January 2013 21:19, Alexander Shorin (JIRA) <[email protected]> wrote: > Alexander Shorin created COUCHDB-1658: > ----------------------------------------- > > Summary: Redirect to online docs if local aren't available > Key: COUCHDB-1658 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1658 > Project: CouchDB > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Documentation > Reporter: Alexander Shorin > > > Probably, it's better to redirect user to online docs (e.g. > https://couchdb.readthedocs.org/en/{version}/ ) instead of showing "Not > found." message if CouchDB was built without local docs support. Since > {version} might not be equal to the branch name, may be take major and minor > numbers with 'x' joined by dot '.' or set it as 'latest' if 'git' substring > was found in version.
It's worth noting that this will not happen with the release tgz, nor with anything bundled with a distribution presumably as they will have the docs baked in. So this relates to people using git checkouts only. Anyway a patch would be great Alex if you feel like it :D A+ Dave
