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Re: Quick command reference

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
May 1, 2005, 16:29 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.58.0505010927040.2296@ppc970.osdl.org>
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On Sun, 1 May 2005, David Greaves wrote:
> 
> I've spent many many hours doing this and I'm happy to spend many more -
> but I'm at that frustrated point where it makes no sense until I know
> it's of use.

I just tend to be concentrating on the technology itself, so docs invariably fall a bit behind for me, until I get to the point where I start looking at what (for me) ends up being the secondary things.

Anyway, what I'd really appreciate is a whole "Documentation" subdirectory, and preferably in some standard format. Maybe real old-fashioned man-pages, but hey, especially with something like this, just html would be good too.

(And no, by "standard format" I do _not_ mean xml or stuff like that. I mean something that is actually easy to read ;)

		Linus
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  3. Brian O'MahoneyMay 1, 2005
  4. David GreavesMay 1, 2005
  5. Linus TorvaldsMay 1, 2005
  6. David GreavesMay 1, 2005
  7. Junio C HamanoMay 1, 2005
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  9. Junio C HamanoMay 6, 2005
  10. GIT blame (was Re: Quick command reference)Junio C Hamano, May 6, 2005
  11. bert hubertMay 1, 2005
  12. David GreavesMay 1, 2005
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  14. Randy.DunlapMay 2, 2005
  15. H. Peter AnvinMay 1, 2005
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