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Re: [PATCH] user-manual.txt: Some doc updates

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JFJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date
Apr 19, 2007, 17:01 UTC
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On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 12:07:01PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
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> On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> 
> > It was a conscious decision to use a mixture of the two techniques; see,
> > e.g.,
> > 
> > 	http://marc.info/?l=git&m=116994435503452&w=2
> > 
> > and followups.
> 
> Maybe it should be said more explicitly that both are fine.

Yes. If I were to do that I'd do it by first rewriting the DESCRIPTION section of git-config.txt to make this point clearer, then making sure there's a gitlink:git-config[1] everywhere there should be in the manual. But we could also add a sentence in the manual here.

--b.
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