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Re: [PATCH 12/13] Remove irrelevant reference from "Tying it all together"

From
Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
Date
Aug 26, 2013, 13:51 UTC
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> Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> writes:
> 
> > Sorry Jon, but this might not be of any help to new Git users ;)
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
> 
> Yeah, I think this is long overdue.  The drawing was taken from an
> e-mail posted in a discussion, and the credit should have been given
> in the commit log message, not in-text.
> 
> 
> > ---
> >  Documentation/user-manual.txt | 3 +--
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
> > index 0d3f04e..08d8c91 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
> > @@ -3908,8 +3908,7 @@ save the note about that state, in practice we tend t
> o just write the
> >  result to the file pointed at by `.git/HEAD`, so that we can always see
> >  what the last committed state was.
> >  
> > -Here is an ASCII art by Jon Loeliger that illustrates how
> > -various pieces fit together.
> > +Here is a picture that illustrates how various pieces fit together:
> >  
> >  ------------

Heh. Totally agree. I don't need my name on *that* bit of Git documentation. If needed, you can find my name on *other* Git documentation. :-)

Acked-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
jdl
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Message 41 of 44 in “Modernize user-manual”
  1. 0/13 Modernize user-manualThomas Ackermann, Aug 24, 2013
  2. 01/13 Call it "Git User Manual" and remove reference to very old Git versionThomas Ackermann, Aug 24, 2013
  3. Jonathan NiederAug 25, 2013
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 25, 2013
  5. 02/13 Use current "detached HEAD" messageThomas Ackermann, Aug 24, 2013
  6. Jonathan NiederAug 25, 2013
  7. Aw: Re: [PATCH 02/13] Use current "detached HEAD" messageThomas Ackermann, Aug 25, 2013
  8. 03/13 Use current output for "git repack"Thomas Ackermann, Aug 24, 2013
  9. Jonathan NiederAug 25, 2013
  10. Aw: Re: [PATCH 03/13] Use current output for "git repack"Thomas Ackermann, Aug 25, 2013
  11. 04/13 Use "git merge" instead of "git pull ."Thomas Ackermann, Aug 24, 2013
  12. Junio C HamanoAug 25, 2013
  13. Jonathan NiederAug 25, 2013
  14. Martin von ZweigbergkAug 25, 2013
  15. 05/13 Fix some typosThomas Ackermann, Aug 24, 2013
  16. Jonathan NiederAug 25, 2013
  17. Aw: Re: [PATCH 05/13] Fix some typosThomas Ackermann, Aug 25, 2013
  18. 06/13 Simplify "How to make a commit"Thomas Ackermann, Aug 24, 2013
  19. Junio C HamanoAug 25, 2013
  20. Jonathan NiederAug 25, 2013
  21. Aw: Re: [PATCH 06/13] Simplify "How to make a commit"Thomas Ackermann, Aug 25, 2013
  22. 07/13 Improve description in "How to merge"Thomas Ackermann, Aug 24, 2013
  23. Junio C HamanoAug 25, 2013
  24. Jonathan NiederAug 25, 2013
  25. Aw: Re: [PATCH 07/13] Improve description in "How to merge"Thomas Ackermann, Aug 25, 2013
  26. 08/13 Improve section "Manipulating branches"Thomas Ackermann, Aug 24, 2013
  27. Junio C HamanoAug 25, 2013
  28. Aw: Re: [PATCH 08/13] Improve section "Manipulating branches"Thomas Ackermann, Aug 25, 2013
  29. 09/13 Improve section "Merge multiple trees"Thomas Ackermann, Aug 24, 2013
  30. Jonathan NiederAug 25, 2013
  31. Aw: Re: [PATCH 09/13] Improve section "Merge multiple trees"Thomas Ackermann, Aug 25, 2013
  32. Jonathan NiederAug 25, 2013
  33. 10/13 Remove unnecessary historical note from "Object storage format"Thomas Ackermann, Aug 24, 2013
  34. Junio C HamanoAug 25, 2013
  35. 11/13 Remove obscure reference from "Examples"Thomas Ackermann, Aug 24, 2013
  36. Junio C HamanoAug 25, 2013
  37. Jonathan NiederAug 25, 2013
  38. Aw: Re: [PATCH 11/13] Remove obscure reference from "Examples"Thomas Ackermann, Aug 25, 2013
  39. 12/13 Remove irrelevant reference from "Tying it all together"Thomas Ackermann, Aug 24, 2013
  40. Junio C HamanoAug 25, 2013
  41. Jon LoeligerAug 26, 2013
  42. 13/13 "git prune" is safe nowThomas Ackermann, Aug 24, 2013
  43. Junio C HamanoAug 25, 2013
  44. Philip OakleyAug 24, 2013

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