NAME

gitman — Export manpages from git repositories

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The gitman utility writes manpages found in the given git repositories (or GIT_DIR if none are specified) to the prefix directory, then updates it's mandoc.db with makewhatis(8).

The options are described below:

-d dir

Set the export directory for manpages. Defaults to the contents of /etc/gitman, or the current working directory if it doesn't exist.

FILES

/etc/gitman

The default export directory if -d isn't specified.

EXIT STATUS

The gitman utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

EXAMPLES

Write the manpages from the repositories under ~/git/ to /var/www/man/main along with a makewhatis(8) database:

SEE ALSO

git-ls-tree(1), git-show(1), makewhatis(8)

AUTHORS

Jacob R. Edwards <jacob@jacobedwards.org>