Re: best git practices, was Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinishedsummary continued

From: Federico Mena Quintero <federico@novell.com>
Date: Oct 25, 2007, 18:06 UTC
Message-ID: <1193335562.4522.403.camel@cacharro.xalalinux.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071025163835.GB31888@fieldses.org>

On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 12:38 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

> It's definitely not a simple cut-and-paste--even with permission from
> the author of "Git for computer scientists", fitting this in would
> require rethinking the ordering of topics in the manual.

Oh, that can be done. It's easier to move text around than to rearchitect code :)

> Also, there's
> the restriction that we'd like to keep it looking good in plain ascii,
> so diagrams have to be done in ascii somehow.

Hmm, what's the rationale for this? I'd assume that most people read the user's manual as a web page (or as bedside reading if they can print a PDF thereof), where diagrams can be pretty.

  Federico

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