Re: [patch] add simple git documentation

From: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
Date: May 8, 2005, 07:35 UTC
Message-ID: <427DC15C.3080208@dgreaves.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050507113618.GA9495@pasky.ji.cz>

Petr Baudis wrote:

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>Dear diary, on Sat, May 07, 2005 at 10:37:12AM CEST, I got a letter
>where David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com> told me that...
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>>Andrew Morton wrote:
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>>>Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
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>>>>This adds short intro to git aimed at kernel hackers.
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>>>OK, but I'm hoping that shortly we'll have something more complete than
>>>this, and your patch might not be a suitable starting point for that. 
>>>(Large hint-dropping sounds).
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>>What are you looking for.
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>>For man-page-a-like, have you seen Documentation/core-git.txt in Linus'
>>repository?
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>>I'll be working more on that this weekend.
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>Are you planning to split it to individual files at some point?
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Yes. I'll see how using asciidoc affects that. And with Linus vacationing it looks like there'll be time this week.

>(That's what I'd like to do with Documentation/cogito/, speaking of
>manpageness...)
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OK BTW, whatever happened to perlification - the initial stab I sent you used the perl/pod approach. The reason I ask is that that means the docs should/could be initially written as here-documents within the scripts rather than external manpages.

David