Re: Git for Windows documentation, was Re: [git-for-windows] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.9.3

From: Dakota Hawkins <dakotahawkins@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 24, 2016, 16:06 UTC
Message-ID: <CAG0BQXmovWAjn8sE=CFGMXguRpEqU3xUbF03aSEN4OLxNc9oZg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1608241740320.4924@virtualbox>

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi Dakota,
>
> On Tue, 23 Aug 2016, Dakota Hawkins wrote:
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>> I use GFW almost exclusively, but I pretty much always consult the
>> upstream documentation anyway (because I find it easier).
>
> Oh... I thought that typing "git help git-commit" opening a nice HTML page
> in your favorite browser was good enough.
>
> Do you have any suggestion how to improve the user experience?

Just a small one, and that's that I'd prefer the option to have help display in my terminal (that option might exist and I don't know how to turn it on). That would be very convenient for me.

Opening a nice HTML page is probably nice for a lot of users. What frustrates me about it is that I don't know which browser window on which monitor (of 3) it's going to open in, so it's a context-switch to a different window somewhere that I don't have much control over.

The thing I find easier about using the upstream documentation is just that I can pick the browser window I want it to come up in, and it's usually faster enough for me to just google "git-whatever" or re-purpose an open doc tab. I don't prefer the _content_ of the upstream documentation, it's just less frustrating for me to use, if that makes sense.

-Dakota