No obvious way to generate man pages

[alerque]

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I've been packaging git-branchless in the Arch Linux AUR (user repository) for a while now and am considering migrating it to official package repositories. I just bumped the packaging to the new v0.7.0 release, but I'm having trouble figuring out where the rumored man pages are.

I see from #112 the discussion about the topic, but no conclusion. It kind of punts to "disto packager support", but I am the distro packager and our tooling does support it, I just can't figure out where to get them from. I see in #114 some tooling was added suggesting man pages might be generated by build.rs and stuffed in the output dir, but I don't see them there either. In more current code I see a function being run as part of git branchless init that suggests it might be stuffing man pages locale to a repository, but I tried that too and didn't find any.

What is the status of having man pages and where can I get them from to add to our packaging?

[arxanas]

Hi @alerque, the existing code for git-branchless init would install man-pages, except that it requires the man-pages feature to be enabled, and also the man-pages feature was removed at some point in the past. I opened #830 to create an explicit git-branchless install-man-pages command; let me know if that works for you and I can merge it.

[alerque]

Thanks for looking into this! I dropped some comments on the PR.