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Re: [PATCH] Add a birdview-on-the-source-code section to the user manual

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
May 9, 2007, 05:05 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
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> "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:
>
>> The organization of the next bit is slightly confusing: we're set up to
>> expect a longer lecture on the revision walker, but instead there's just
>> the historical note on git-rev-list, a mention of 'revision.c',
>> 'revision.h', and 'struct rev_info', and then it rapidly digresses into
>> discussing builtins.
>
> I had the same impression.
>
> I was meaning to write a "code walkthru for git hackers and
> wannabes" with target audience quite different from the
> user-manual.  My idea of which areas to cover in what order
> seems to match with what Johannes started.

Having said that, I do not think the patch belongs to the "git USER'S manual". It is a very good introductory material for a separate "git hackers manual", though.

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  1. Add a birdview-on-the-source-code section to the user manualJohannes Schindelin, May 8, 2007
  2. Karl HasselströmMay 8, 2007
  3. Johannes SchindelinMay 8, 2007
  4. Karl HasselströmMay 8, 2007
  5. Johannes SchindelinMay 8, 2007
  6. Karl HasselströmMay 8, 2007
  7. Daniel BarkalowMay 9, 2007
  8. Karl HasselströmMay 9, 2007
  9. Johannes SchindelinMay 9, 2007
  10. Karl HasselströmMay 9, 2007
  11. J. Bruce FieldsMay 9, 2007
  12. Junio C HamanoMay 9, 2007
  13. Junio C HamanoMay 9, 2007
  14. Johannes SchindelinMay 9, 2007
  15. J. Bruce FieldsMay 9, 2007
  16. Karl HasselströmMay 9, 2007
  17. Johannes SchindelinMay 9, 2007
  18. Johannes SchindelinMay 9, 2007
  19. Petr BaudisMay 9, 2007
  20. Johannes SchindelinMay 9, 2007
  21. Daniel BarkalowMay 9, 2007
  22. Johannes SchindelinMay 9, 2007
  23. J. Bruce FieldsMay 9, 2007
  24. Johannes SchindelinMay 9, 2007
  25. J. Bruce FieldsMay 9, 2007
  26. Daniel BarkalowMay 9, 2007
  27. Johannes SchindelinMay 9, 2007
  28. Karl HasselströmMay 10, 2007
  29. J. Bruce FieldsMay 9, 2007
  30. Junio C HamanoMay 10, 2007
  31. Add a birdview-on-the-source-code section to the user manualJohannes Schindelin, May 10, 2007
  32. Junio C HamanoMay 10, 2007
  33. Karl HasselströmMay 10, 2007

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