Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git wiki

> Dear diary, on Wed, May 03, 2006 at 09:21:54PM CEST, I got a letter
> where David Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com> said that...
>> On Wed, 3 May 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>>
>>> As to content, we could I think use material found at Wikipedia Git page,
>>> and on External Links in Wikipedia Git_(software) article, not repeating of
>>> course what is in official Git Documentation/
>>
>> please go ahead and put a lot of the info that is in the GIT
>> Documentation/ on the wiki. it's far easier to go to one site and browse
>> around to find things then to run into issues where you have to go
>> somewhere else (with different tools) to find the info.
>>
>> even if you just put all the documentation files there, as-is (as text
>> files even, no hyperlinks in them) they should still be there.
>
> Then who will keep it in sync (BOTH ways)? That would be quite a lot of
> work, I think.
>
> That said, having the documentation in a wiki is not a bad idea per se,
> but you need to keep things consistent and converging. And I believe
> (and hope) that killing Documentation/ directory is no option - I hate
> it when documentation of software I installed just tells me "look at
> this URI" (which documents a different version anyway, and it's all very
> useful when I'm sitting in a train with my notebook).