Hello, When I install the latest WANdisco git-man package on Ubuntu, it's pretty much an empty package. The payload includes a few directories but not the man pages themselves. Looking through the repos, I think this has been this way for a while. Any plans to include the man pages sometime soon?
# apt-cache show git-man Package: git-man Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: doc Installed-Size: 432 Maintainer: WANdisco Architecture: all Source: git Version: 1:2.18.0-1+WANdisco.1530834678 Replaces: cogito (<< 0.16rc2-0), git (<< 1:1.7.4~rc1), git-core (<< 1:1.7.0.4-1.) Breaks: git (<< 1:1.7.4~rc1) Description-en: fast, scalable, distributed revision control system (manual pages) Git is popular version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency; it is used for many high profile open source projects, most notably the Linux kernel. . Git falls in the category of distributed source code management tools. Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server. . This package provides reference documentation for use by the 'man' utility and the 'git help' command. Description-md5: 0c79f507738c0cb72351c8ae551ee47d Homepage: http://www.wandisco.com/
# dpkg -l git-man Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==========================================-==========================-==========================-========================================================================================== ii git-man 1:2.18.0-1+WANdisco.153083 all fast, scalable, distributed revision control system (manual pages)
# dpkg -L git-man /. /usr /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/git-man /usr/share/doc/git-man/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/git-man/copyright /usr/share/doc/git-man/changelog.gz /usr/share/man /usr/share/man/man1
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial). Repo: http://opensource.wandisco.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial/git/binary-amd64/
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