Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 22, 2007, 12:26 UTC
Message-ID: <8fe92b430710220526i65ecb862ie1037e9d94d93b83@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <471C586A.9030900@op5.se>

On 10/22/07, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote: [...]

>>>>> On 10/20/07, Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Maybe we could group commands into more categories?

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> Similarly, it might be helpful to have help topics the gdb way, like
> "git help patches". It's one of those things that people have come to
> expect from a software tool, so perhaps we should humor them? Given gits
> "every help topic is a man-page" idiom, this shouldn't require any real
> technical effort.
>
> Such topics should probably include
> merge/merges/merging - overview of various ways of putting two lines of
> development back together
> patch/patches - how to create, send and apply
> tags/branches/refs - what they are, why they're good, link to merging

Very good idea. It is definitely something that can be worked on.

By the way, what do you think about "spying" version of git, specially marked release which gathers statistics of porcelain used, with frequency of its use, and git-sendstats command added in this release?

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Jakub Narebski