Re: RFD: tables in documentation

From: Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com>
Date: May 2, 2010, 14:51 UTC
Message-ID: <1272811916.24767.16.camel@dreddbeard>
In-Reply-To: <1272811394.24767.7.camel@dreddbeard>

sorry about that, apparently "shift+enter" means "send" to this thing...

On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 15:43 +0100, Will Palmer wrote:

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> On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 15:31 +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> > Jeff King venit, vidit, dixit 02.05.2010 07:06:
> > > On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 08:37:39PM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> > > Did you put the source up anywhere? I didn't see it, but it would be
> > > interesting to see how painful it is to write.
> > 
> > http://repo.or.cz/w/git/mjg.git/shortlog/refs/heads/doc-use-tables
> > 
> > Tough guess, I know ;)
> > 
> > Michael
>

that looks suspiciously like a format that's intended to be readable in both plaintext and eventually-generated form. This is me speaking in pure ignorance, but would something like (though I assume not exactly):

[cols="1,3*5,8"]
   |=====================
   |		   |I		 |H		|M		|Result
   |     0	   |nothing	 |nothing	|nothing	|(does not happen)
   |     1	   |nothing	 |nothing	|exists		|use M
   |     2	   |nothing	 |exists	|nothing	|remove path from index
.2+|	 3	.2+|nothing   .2+|exists	|exists, H == M |use M if "initial checkout", keep index otherwise
						 exists, H != M |fail
   |=====================

work as intended?

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-- Will