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Re: Documentation status

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
May 5, 2008, 07:34 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:
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>> Ok, I will do that.
>> Then what about tutorials (that I put in section 7) ?
> 
> Please step back a bit.  What's the reason why you need to make
> everything into manpages?

I think the main idea was to make into manpages all documentation which is referenced from manpages, perhaps with the exception of documentation listed in git(7)/git(1).

This way one use man viewer such as 'pinfo', and follow references to other manpages...

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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  1. 3/3 Documentation: convert tutorials to man pagesChristian Couder, May 2, 2008
  2. Jakub NarebskiMay 2, 2008
  3. Jeff KingMay 2, 2008
  4. J. Bruce FieldsMay 2, 2008
  5. Christian CouderMay 3, 2008
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 3, 2008
  7. Documentation status (was Re: [PATCH 3/3] Documentation: convert tutorials to man pages)Christian Couder, May 5, 2008
  8. Junio C HamanoMay 5, 2008
  9. Jakub NarebskiMay 5, 2008
  10. Christian CouderMay 6, 2008

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