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Re: [PATCH] Add documentation on how to integrate commands.

From
Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date
Nov 24, 2012, 15:23 UTC
Message-ID
<20121124152309.GA31679@thyrsus.com>
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<20121124151127.GA24459@padd.com>
Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>:
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> Nice start.  A few other details; I recently did this for git-p4
> (python).
> 
> .gitignore: ignore the auto-generated script, e.g. when
> git-foo.py is built into git-foo.
> 
> INSTALL: note language requirements if odd (see python section)
> 
> command-list.txt: categorization of commands for git(1) etc.
> 
> RelNotes: Junio generally does this.
> 
> 
> Also please read Documentation/technical/api-builtin.txt to
> see how to add a built-in command.  It also has comments that
> are identical for both built-in and stand-alone command.  Could
> be that your text would better go near or with that one, as perhaps
> api-command.txt.
Good points.  I will submit a revised patch later today.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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