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Re: [PATCH] glossary: stop generating automatically

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Mar 19, 2007, 04:32 UTC
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"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu> writes:
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> From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
>
> The sort_glossary.pl script sorts the glossary, checks for duplicates,
> and automatically adds cross-references.
>
> But it's not so hard to do all that by hand, and sometimes the automatic
> cross-references are a little wrong; so let's run the script one last
> time and check in its output.

This initially raised my eyebrow but after looking at the next patch, I tend to agree why automated stuff needs to be lot better, or we forget about automation and maintain that by hand.

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Message 7 of 9 in “user-manual: run xsltproc without --nonet option”
  1. user-manual: run xsltproc without --nonet optionJ. Bruce Fields, Mar 19, 2007
  2. user-manual.txt: fix a tiny typo.J. Bruce Fields, Mar 19, 2007
  3. user-manual: Use def_ instead of ref_ for glossary references.J. Bruce Fields, Mar 19, 2007
  4. glossary: stop generating automaticallyJ. Bruce Fields, Mar 19, 2007
  5. glossary: clean up cross-referencesJ. Bruce Fields, Mar 19, 2007
  6. user-manual: introduce "branch" and "branch head" differentlyJ. Bruce Fields, Mar 19, 2007
  7. Junio C HamanoMar 19, 2007
  8. Johannes SchindelinMar 19, 2007
  9. Johannes SchindelinMar 19, 2007

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