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Re: grafts not appearing in manual pages

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JFJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date
Sep 26, 2007, 21:01 UTC
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On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:24:41PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> The only occurrence of grafts in the manual pages is in the
> git-filter-branch one. I somehow feel this is wrong not to see it
> described more "formally" in the manual pages.
> 
> I wouldn't mind writing a small something, except I have no idea what
> would be the most appropriate place to talk about it... Does anyone have
> such an idea ?

It could go in Documentation/user-manual.txt, but I don't know where. Maybe at the end of the git-concepts chapter? Patches welcomed. I guess what's needed (and currently missing) is an overview explaining what they're actually for, plus some basic setup instructions.

And/or maybe a section 5 manual page documenting the format of the "grafts" file? Maybe that's overkill. There's a paragraph in Documentation/repository-layout.txt. Maybe we need to make it easier to find that file.

--b.
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