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Re: Documentation status

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Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Date
May 6, 2008, 03:11 UTC
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<200805060511.15293.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
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Le lundi 5 mai 2008, Junio C Hamano a écrit :
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> Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:
> > Le samedi 3 mai 2008, Junio C Hamano a écrit :
> >>
> >> My preference is to move git(7) to git(1) because it is describing a
> >> command at the end-user level (distros are much better than us to come
> >> up with a way to deal with conflict resolution between us and the
> >> other git), keep file format description in section 5 (that's where
> >> they belong to).
> >
> > 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?

Some people prefer to use man pages and they like it when all the documentation is available as man pages.

Regards, Christian.

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Message 10 of 10 in “Documentation: convert tutorials to man pages”
  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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