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Re: What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2014, #03; Fri, 14)

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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 16, 2014, 23:15 UTC
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Philip Oakley wrote:
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>> * po/everyday-doc (2014-01-27) 1 commit
>> - Make 'git help everyday' work
>>
>> This may make the said command to emit something, but the source is
>> not meant to be formatted into a manual pages to begin with, and
>> also its contents are a bit stale.  It may be a good first step in
>> the right direction, but needs more work to at least get the
>> mark-up right before public consumption.
>
> I'm not sure what elements you feel need adjustment. At the moment the
> markup formats quite reasonably to my eyes, both as an HTML page and as a
> man page.
I sent you a small patch fixing some minor markup issues.
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> That said, the (lack of) introduction could do with a paragraph to introduce
> the "guide". I have something in draft..
>
> I had a thought that it may be worth a slight rearrangement to add a section
> covering the setting up of one's remotes, depending whether it was forked,
> corporate, or independent, but the lack of resolution on the next
> {publish/push} topic makes such a re-write awkward at this stage. (Ram cc'd)

Before attempting to introduce remote.pushdefault and triangular workflows, I'd first fix the main issue: stale content. I'm not sure who uses git show-branch or mailx anymore, for instance.

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  11. Philip OakleyMar 16, 2014
  12. Ramkumar RamachandraMar 16, 2014
  13. Junio C HamanoMar 17, 2014
  14. Philip OakleyMar 17, 2014
  15. Junio C HamanoMar 17, 2014
  16. Philip OakleyMar 18, 2014
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