From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 05:05:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a birdview-on-the-source-code section to the user manual
Message-ID: <7v4pmmzivz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vps5azlm1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

> "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.