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Re: [PATCH 0/6] Make 'git help everyday' work -> relnotes

From
Stefan Näwe <stefan.naewe@atlas-elektronik.com>
Date
Jan 17, 2014, 11:59 UTC
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Am 16.01.2014 22:14, schrieb Philip Oakley:
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> From: "Stefan Näwe" <stefan.naewe@atlas-elektronik.com>
> [...]
>>
>> I'd really like to see 'git help relnotes' working as well...
>>
>> Stefan
> 
> Stefan,
> 
> Were you thinking that all the release notes would be quoted verbatim in 
> the one long man page?
> 
> Or that it would be a set of links to each of the individual text files 
> (see the ifdef::stalenotes[] in git/Documentation/git.txt)?
> 
> The latter allows individual release notes to be checked, but still 
> leaves folks with a difficult search problem if they want to find when 
> some command was 'tweaked'.
> 
> Obviously, any method would need to be easy to maintain. And the 
> RelNotes symlink would need handling.

'git help relnotes' should show the current release note with a link to the previous.

And 'git help git' should link to the current release note.
Stefan
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Message 15 of 21 in “Make 'git help everyday' work”
  1. 0/6 Make 'git help everyday' workPhilip Oakley, Jan 9, 2014
  2. 1/6 copy everyday.txt to giteveryday.txtPhilip Oakley, Jan 9, 2014
  3. 2/6 Update giteveryday.txt to fit man page formattingPhilip Oakley, Jan 9, 2014
  4. 3/6 add giteveryday to the manpages make listPhilip Oakley, Jan 9, 2014
  5. 4/6 Add deprecation note to old everyday.txtPhilip Oakley, Jan 9, 2014
  6. 5/6 add 'everyday' to the help --guides listPhilip Oakley, Jan 9, 2014
  7. 6/6 Update git(1) link to giteverydayPhilip Oakley, Jan 9, 2014
  8. Junio C HamanoJan 9, 2014
  9. Philip OakleyJan 10, 2014
  10. Junio C HamanoJan 10, 2014
  11. Philip OakleyJan 10, 2014
  12. Philip OakleyJan 11, 2014
  13. Stefan NäweJan 10, 2014
  14. Philip OakleyJan 16, 2014
  15. Stefan NäweJan 17, 2014
  16. Philip OakleyJan 21, 2014
  17. Junio C HamanoJan 21, 2014
  18. Philip OakleyJan 22, 2014
  19. Junio C HamanoJan 22, 2014
  20. Philip OakleyJan 22, 2014
  21. Jonathan NiederJan 10, 2014

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