From: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:01:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5/RFC 3/6] gitweb: Add manpage for gitweb (APPLICATION!!!)
Message-ID: <1318341714.22324.46.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <201110111551.09621.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 15:51 +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Drew Northup wrote:

> > This would be why I included a synopsis with my original submission. As
> > this was supposed to be a description of the configuration files of said
> > application it does not make much sense to put the executable in the
> > synopsis. Please forgive me for attempting to make sense!
> 
> But this manpage is about _gitweb itself_, not about gitweb config file(s).
> Gitweb itself is application, though it is not runnable directly (yet).
> 
> Web apps either don't use manpages as documentation, and those that do
> that I found (SVN::Web for example) include runnable server-starting script.

Hmm, Couldn't tell from the mail header _which_ we were talking about in
this subthread. I'll have to read the _whole_ patch apparently next
time.

Crawling back into my cave...

-- 
-Drew Northup
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