From: Christian Meder Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 21:22:35 GMT Subject: Re: Notes and questions while reading the documentation Message-ID: <1128979355.7097.33.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <7v1x2zfsp2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Sorry for being slow. On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 16:30 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Christian Meder writes: > > > * a lot of the manpages include something like "v0.1, June 2005" in the > > header; these versions tags are pretty obscure to interpret, timestamp > > when last edited ? version of the manpage ? version of git when the > > manpage was included ? maturity the author assigned to the content ? > > If these tags don't follow some sane schema they should be removed. > > I think the original intent was the last modification datestamp > and the version of the documentation, but I agree it should be > removed. I do not think they show on the HTML version, nor man > pages, although I have to admit that I haven't looked at > generated manpages for some time. Ok. I've done a patch to remove them in a separate email. > > * the usage of git, Git and GIT isn't consistent in the documentation. > > I'd vote for only using git. > > Sounds sane. What would we do if we need to start sentences with it? I prepared a patch which changes all usages to git even at the beginning of sentences. > > * git-clone says that http transport is not supported yet I used it to > > clone the git repo from kernel.org yesterday. Should the documentation > > get updated ? > > Thanks for noticing. Yes, now HTTP can handle both of the > trickier setups (packed, and alternates); credit goes to Daniel. I noted it down for my second sweep. > > * the manpage synopsises aren't consistent wrt command naming; it's "git > > commit" but "git-branch"; I guess all the manpages should reference > > their commands as "git-x" and not "git x" > > Agreed. > Ok. Patch in separate email. Christian -- Christian Meder, email: chris@absolutegiganten.org The Way-Seeking Mind of a tenzo is actualized by rolling up your sleeves. (Eihei Dogen Zenji)