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| author | Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com> | 2021-04-14 11:21:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com> | 2021-04-21 07:23:57 +0200 |
| commit | 91cbb912c557ab0aef7563e8f0f846e9b226eff0 (patch) | |
| tree | a76ffc1bfb75bdb3f94ffb39974e12476757dbda /README.md | |
| parent | 4838e378b94f2731f1d53042a71136dcb4890c44 (diff) | |
README.md: workaround for the cargo manpage issue
git-absorb provides a manpage, but cargo does not currently know how
to install it. Offer a manual workaround in the README.
Co-authored-by: Waldir Pimenta <waldyrious@gmail.com>
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@@ -37,6 +37,13 @@ Alternatively, `git absorb` is available in the following system package manager | nixpkgs stable and unstable | `nix-env -iA nixpkgs.gitAndTools.git-absorb` | | Void Linux | `xbps-install -S git-absorb` | +Note: `cargo install` does not currently know how to install manpages ([cargo#2729](https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/2729)), so if you use `cargo` for installation then `git absorb --help` will not work. Here is a manual workaround, assuming your system has a `~/.local/share/man/man1` directory that `man --path` knows about: + +``` +wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tummychow/git-absorb/master/Documentation/git-absorb.1 +mv git-absorb.1 ~/.local/share/man/man1 +``` + ## Usage 1. `git add` any changes that you want to absorb. By design, `git absorb` will only consider content in the git index. |