git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: [PATCH V2] user-manual: add addition gitweb information

From
SSStephen & Linda Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
Date
Dec 31, 2015, 00:13 UTC
Message-ID
<2046573.P07fx7UGVP@thunderbird>
In-Reply-To
<1451517920-30703-1-git-send-email-ischis2@cox.net>
On Wednesday, December 30, 2015 03:29:09 PM Junio C Hamano wrote:
Show 13 quoted lines
> "Stephen P. Smith" <ischis2@cox.net> writes:
> 
> >  The gitweb cgi script provides users an easy way to browse your
> > -project's files and history without having to install Git; see the file
> > -gitweb/INSTALL in the Git source tree for instructions on setting it up.
> > +project's revisions, file contents and logs without having to install
> > +Git. Features like RSS/Atom feeds and blame/annotation details may
> 
> Thanks.  Was there a reason to rewrite "files and history" into
> "revisions, file contents and logs"?  The words "revisions" and
> "logs" both refer to the same thing and "history" is a good word for
> it already, so I am puzzled.  No strong objection, though...
> 

"revisions, file contents and logs was in the second sentence of the first patch. "files and history" was in the first sentence of the first patch.

When I was getting rid of the duplication I decided that "revisions, file contents and logs". As a secondary reason that is the wording in gitweb.txt.

Previous: Junio C HamanoNext: Stephen & Linda Smith
Message 5 of 7 in “user-manual: add addition gitweb information”
  1. user-manual: add addition gitweb informationStephen P. Smith, Dec 30, 2015
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 30, 2015
  3. user-manual: add addition gitweb informationStephen P. Smith, Dec 30, 2015
  4. Junio C HamanoDec 30, 2015
  5. Stephen & Linda SmithDec 31, 2015
  6. Stephen & Linda SmithDec 31, 2015
  7. Junio C HamanoDec 31, 2015

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.