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Re: is http://git-scm.com an *official* git-affiliated site?

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Feb 7, 2018, 12:56 UTC
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<20180207125649.GA16018@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 11:34:51AM +0000, pedro rijo wrote:
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> The command list under https://git-scm.com/docs doesn't show all the
> commands. It's a manually curated list as we can see at
> 
> - https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/blob/master/app/views/doc/ref.html.erb
> - https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/tree/master/app/views/shared/ref
> 
> I'm not sure if the goal ever was to list all available commands or to just
> list some important existing commands (cc @Peff).
>
> If we want to list all available commands, there's some work that must be
> done in order to automate that, since it's not feasible to manually add
> each new command.

I think we _could_ just add all commands, but there's some value in organizing them. I'm not sure if there's enough information in git.git to do that organization. But we could also have a curated list of some subset of the commands, and then dump the rest in an alphabetized index.

-Peff
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