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Re: [PATCH 0/6] Unify argument and option notation in the docs

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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 21, 2010, 22:21 UTC
Message-ID
<20101021222129.GA13262@burratino>
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<8739sgtp8i.fsf@gmail.com>
Štěpán Němec wrote:
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> :-) I was actually considering just that, so I'm glad you mention it.
> 
> I can try to compile an initial version of such a document, based on the
> commit message of the original single-patch version
> (<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/158467>) and
> including some more cases/examples.
> 
> Where do you think would be the most appropriate place for it?
> Just add a section to CodingGuidelines, or a separate
> Documentation/WritingGuidelines or something?

Sorry for the slow response. Documentation/CodingGuidelines makes sense to me, since it affects the usage strings in code.

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Message 8 of 43 in “Unify argument and option notation in the docs”
  1. Unify argument and option notation in the docsŠtěpán Němec, Oct 8, 2010
  2. Jonathan NiederOct 8, 2010
  3. Štěpán NěmecOct 8, 2010
  4. 0/6 Unify argument and option notation in the docsŠtěpán Němec, Oct 8, 2010
  5. Jonathan NiederOct 8, 2010
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 8, 2010
  7. Štěpán NěmecOct 8, 2010
  8. Jonathan NiederOct 21, 2010
  9. CodingGuidelines: Add a section on writing documentationŠtěpán Němec, Oct 24, 2010
  10. Mark LodatoOct 29, 2010
  11. Štěpán NěmecOct 29, 2010
  12. Sverre RabbelierOct 29, 2010
  13. Štěpán NěmecNov 1, 2010
  14. CodingGuidelines: Add a section on writing documentationŠtěpán Němec, Nov 4, 2010
  15. diff,difftool: Don't use the {0,2} notation in usage stringsŠtěpán Němec, Nov 4, 2010
  16. Sverre RabbelierNov 4, 2010
  17. Jeff KingNov 4, 2010
  18. Jonathan NiederNov 4, 2010
  19. Jeff KingNov 4, 2010
  20. Jonathan NiederNov 4, 2010
  21. Jeff KingNov 4, 2010
  22. Štěpán NěmecNov 4, 2010
  23. Jeff KingNov 4, 2010
  24. docs: clarify git diff modes of operationJeff King, Nov 4, 2010
  25. Jonathan NiederNov 4, 2010
  26. Mark LodatoNov 5, 2010
  27. Štěpán NěmecNov 4, 2010
  28. Štěpán NěmecNov 4, 2010
  29. 1/6 Use angles for placeholders consistentlyŠtěpán Němec, Oct 8, 2010
  30. 2/6 Fix odd markup in --diff-filter documentationŠtěpán Němec, Oct 8, 2010
  31. Jonathan NiederOct 8, 2010
  32. Štěpán NěmecOct 8, 2010
  33. Jonathan NiederOct 8, 2010
  34. Štěpán NěmecOct 8, 2010
  35. Jonathan NiederOct 8, 2010
  36. 3/6 Use parentheses and `...' where appropriateŠtěpán Němec, Oct 8, 2010
  37. 4/6 Remove stray quotes in --pretty and --format documentationŠtěpán Němec, Oct 8, 2010
  38. 5/6 Put a space between `<' and argument in pack-objects usage stringŠtěpán Němec, Oct 8, 2010
  39. 6/6 Fix {update,checkout}-index usage stringsŠtěpán Němec, Oct 8, 2010
  40. 0/2 pack-objects: use ALLOC_GROW in place of manual growthJonathan Nieder, Oct 8, 2010
  41. 1/2 Documentation: No argument of ALLOC_GROW should have side-effectsJonathan Nieder, Oct 8, 2010
  42. 2/2 pack-objects: use ALLOC_GROWJonathan Nieder, Oct 8, 2010
  43. 3/2 Allow side-effects in second argument to ALLOC_GROWJonathan Nieder, Oct 8, 2010

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