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contributing: Broken link to Git manual

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>, 55821 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55821: contributing: Broken link to Git manual
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 15:20:34 -0400

Hi Ludo,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> 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.

[0]  https://github.com/git/git/commit/4739809cd0ea12a8de006f9f086fdff9285189b8

Thanks,

Maxim

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