not so much a git issue as what looks like a fedora packaging issue.
on my updated fedora 29 system, "man gitweb" works:
GITWEB(1) Git Manual GITWEB(1)
NAME
gitweb - Git web interface (web frontend to Git repositories)
SYNOPSIS
To get started with gitweb, run git-instaweb(1) from a Git
repository. This would configure and start your web server, and
run web browser pointing to gitweb.
... snip ...
and the corresponding man page source file clearly belongs to the
"git" package:
$ rpm -qf /usr/share/man/man1/gitweb.1.gz
git-2.20.1-1.fc29.x86_64
$
but there is no "git instaweb" command:
$ git instaweb
git: 'instaweb' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
$
it took only a few seconds to determine that fedora bundles that
functionality in two separate packages which are not dependencies of
"git": "gitweb" and "git-instaweb" (output abbreviated):
$ sudo dnf install git-instaweb
...
Installing:
git-instaweb
Installing dependencies:
gitweb
perl-CGI
and now "git-instaweb" works fine.
the question is, is it not inconsistent for fedora's basic "git"
package to include the man page for gitweb, without including the
corresponding functionality? is this something i should submit a
fedora bugzilla report for? or am i misunderstanding something?
rday
--
========================================================================
Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
http://crashcourse.ca/dokuwiki
Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday
LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday
========================================================================
