Re: [PATCH] Add a birdview-on-the-source-code section to the user manual
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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- 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.