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So... where is it?

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It's behind the link in the post. On, perhaps, the worst git repo browser ever.

RMS's link: https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=c-intro-and-ref

click "browse sources repository" https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/c-intro-and-ref.git

hunt for the word "tree" and click it: https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/c-intro-and-ref.git/tre...

Oh look, a directory listing! Click the manual! https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/c-intro-and-ref.git/tre...

What, you don't want to read the 13k-line tex source? Sorry. Clone it and build it yourself, I guess.

This is an idiologist's moral choice, not a choice of the most convenient technology, though, right? That's his "whole thing."

The other GNU manuals are available here: https://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.en.html

They don't try to hide them. This is the git repo of the new version of the C reference and will end up on that page at some point, replacing the one there now.

It's just cgit. It's a pretty good git browser that has few dependencies and runs fast. There's plenty of things to complain about with savannah, but I don't think cgit is one of them.

Following the link from the message: https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/c-intro-and-ref.git/

It's a link in the email message to a git repo with Texinfo files.

  git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/c-intro-and-ref.git

Link in the email goes to https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=c-intro-and-ref, but that seems to be down.

It's not down, or not for me, just very slow.

it is not everyday that a few tens of thousands of humans come to visit at once

git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/c-intro-and-ref.git

It's in the Texinfo format though, so you'd probably want to texi2html it.

> you'd probably want to texi2html it.

Or just

  make c.html

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