Re: [PATCH] user-manual: mention git gui citool (commit, amend)

From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date: Aug 3, 2007, 12:58 UTC
Message-ID: <20070803125846.GC28323@fieldses.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070803030459.GJ20052@spearce.org>

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:04:59PM -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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> Online help?  In git-gui?  :-)
> 
> We don't have an online help system yet.  Basically no documentation
> has been written for git-gui.  No thought has been put into how one
> should be organized, maintained, or displayed to the poor human
> who is just trying to learn more about Git and this gui thing it
> came with.
> 
> Yes, Help->Online Documentation is abvailable to most users, but
> that just opens your web browser (if it can find one) and points
> it to kernel.org's git manual.  Not exactly the best material for
> learning more about git-gui itself.

Fair enough.

Though I'd like to keep the main body of the manual focused on the major command line tools, I'd have no objection to a separate chapter (or appendix?) devoted to git-gui; then you could point directly at that. Would that make sense?

--b.