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Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-add.txt: Explain --patch option in layman terms

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 30, 2009, 23:31 UTC
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Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:
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> I think the convention used in git's manual pages deviate from the
> standard practise. We could make the git manual pages into line of:
>
> - write all the first level headings in all caps: "HEADING LIKE THIS"
> - write second level heading: start Upper-lower: "Heading like this"
>
> Cf. rsync(1), ssh(1) etc. many pages prior git's existense.

Having seen that nothing happened after a separate thread that was also on the documentation consistency:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/72163/focus=72213

I am having a hard time to decide how seriously I should take the above comment from you.

Are you volunteering to coordinate such a change (in other words, you do not necessarily have to do _all_ the work yourself, alone), or is it just an idle speculation?

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  1. Documentation/git-add.txt: Explain --patch option in layman termsJari Aalto, Aug 30, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 30, 2009
  3. Jeff KingAug 30, 2009
  4. Jari AaltoAug 30, 2009
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 30, 2009
  6. Jari AaltoAug 30, 2009
  7. Junio C HamanoAug 30, 2009
  8. Jari AaltoAug 31, 2009
  9. Junio C HamanoAug 31, 2009
  10. Improve --patch option documentation in git-addJari Aalto, Sep 13, 2009
  11. Mikael MagnussonSep 13, 2009
  12. Jari AaltoSep 13, 2009
  13. Sean EstabrooksSep 14, 2009
  14. Jari AaltoSep 15, 2009
  15. Nanako ShiraishiSep 15, 2009
  16. Jari AaltoSep 15, 2009
  17. Nanako ShiraishiSep 15, 2009
  18. Junio C HamanoAug 30, 2009
  19. Jari AaltoAug 31, 2009
  20. Junio C HamanoAug 31, 2009
  21. Jari AaltoAug 30, 2009

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