would instead give you a copy of what you see at:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/
+
+ It has been reported that docbook-xsl version 1.72 and 1.73 are
+ buggy; 1.72 misformats manual pages for callouts, and 1.73 needs
+ the patch in contrib/patches/docbook-xsl-manpages-charmap.patch