From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2721C20706 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2016 13:25:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932995AbcGENZF (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jul 2016 09:25:05 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58114 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754491AbcGENYj (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jul 2016 09:24:39 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bKQL7-0006At-MN for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2016 15:24:37 +0200 Received: from acvd198.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl ([83.11.109.198]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jul 2016 15:24:37 +0200 Received: from jnareb by acvd198.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jul 2016 15:24:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org From: =?UTF-8?Q?Jakub_Nar=c4=99bski?= Subject: Re: Missing Package in git Installation Instructions (git-scm.com) Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 15:24:23 +0200 Message-ID: <577BB507.1060603@gmail.com> References: <1467670411.13990.4.camel@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: acvd198.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org W dniu 2016-07-05 o 08:10, Johannes Schindelin pisze: > Hi Chris, > > On Tue, 5 Jul 2016, Christoph Michelbach wrote: > >> Hi, I noticed that the instructions on https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/G >> etting-Started-Installing-Git don't work without dh-autoreconf >> installed on an apt-get system which isn't listed on that site. Can you >> fix that or tell me whom to tell about this? The website doesn't offer >> contact information. Just tried this on a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 >> installation. > > When you follow that link, do you see this text on the left side? > > The source of this book is hosted on GitHub. > Patches, suggestions and comments are welcome. > > It links to https://github.com/progit/progit2 and I am sure your bug > report would make an excellent contribution to the bug tracker ("Issues") > in that repository. > > It would probably be even better if you cloned said repository, found the > respective file via `git grep apt-get`, fixed it, and opened a Pull > Request. Or you can even fix it from a web interface, if you have a GitHub account. Behind the scene, GitHub would fork a repository, edit file and create a commit, then create a pull request. Very easy for one-off fixes, assuming that you have a GitHub account. -- Jakub Narębski