From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:12:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Git Wiki Move
Message-ID: <7v3a26rjq9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <fabb9a1e1001151608k6911bcf8p854d97c2f2d46264@mail.gmail.com>

Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> writes:

> From the original faq:
>
> <<GitLink(git-name, Because Linus is an egotistical git)>>
>
> Is translated to
>
> <<[[GitLink]](git-name, Because Linus is an egotistical git}}
>
> But should instead be turned into a comment (from the source of the faq):
>
> <!-- GitLink[git-name] Because Linus is an egotistical git -->
>
>> There's some
>> extraneous bits on the page that I haven't figured out what they were
>> for originally but most everything on the page seems to work fine for me...
>
> We're probably referring to the same then :).

IIRC, they are read by gitbot listening to #git channel at freenode, so
that people can say "faq git-name" and such to summon a response.