From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 23:27:32 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/CodingGuidelines: How to document new APIs Message-ID: <20180927232732.GA216193@aiede.svl.corp.google.com> In-Reply-To: <20180927212727.128214-1-sbeller@google.com> Hi, Stefan Beller wrote: > There are different opinions on how to document an API properly. > Discussion turns out nobody disagrees with documenting new APIs on the > function level in the header file and high level concepts in > Documentation/technical, so let's state that in the guidelines. I disagree with this. I think we should put all the API docs in the header file, like we're already doing in e.g. strbuf.h. Do you have a link to where in the discussion this split-docs strategy was decided? Thanks, Jonathan