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Re: [PATCH 0/6] Make 'git help everyday' work

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 10, 2014, 18:09 UTC
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"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:
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> From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
>>I think we already use a nicer way to set up a page alias to keep
>> old links working than making a copy in Documentation/; please mimic
>> that if possible.
>
> This was mainly about ensuring that the 'git help' command could
> access these extra extra guides that it currently misses. (Tt also
> misses the 'user-manual', which isn't a man page, but could have a
> link page to guide the seeker of truth between 'git help' and the
> actual user-manual)
>
> The only method I can see for that (via help.c) is to get the filename
> format correct.  Where you thinking of something else?

I do not have an objection against the creation of giteveryday.txt; I was questioning the way the original everyday.txt was left behind to bit-rot. It is good to keep _something_ there, because there may be old URLs floating around that point at Documentation/everyday.txt, but the contents of that file does not have to be a stale copy.

Cf. bd4a3d61 (Rename {git- => git}remote-helpers.txt, 2013-01-31) for how we renamed git-remote-helpers.txt to gitremote-helpers.txt

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Message 10 of 21 in “Make 'git help everyday' work”
  1. 0/6 Make 'git help everyday' workPhilip Oakley, Jan 9, 2014
  2. 1/6 copy everyday.txt to giteveryday.txtPhilip Oakley, Jan 9, 2014
  3. 2/6 Update giteveryday.txt to fit man page formattingPhilip Oakley, Jan 9, 2014
  4. 3/6 add giteveryday to the manpages make listPhilip Oakley, Jan 9, 2014
  5. 4/6 Add deprecation note to old everyday.txtPhilip Oakley, Jan 9, 2014
  6. 5/6 add 'everyday' to the help --guides listPhilip Oakley, Jan 9, 2014
  7. 6/6 Update git(1) link to giteverydayPhilip Oakley, Jan 9, 2014
  8. Junio C HamanoJan 9, 2014
  9. Philip OakleyJan 10, 2014
  10. Junio C HamanoJan 10, 2014
  11. Philip OakleyJan 10, 2014
  12. Philip OakleyJan 11, 2014
  13. Stefan NäweJan 10, 2014
  14. Philip OakleyJan 16, 2014
  15. Stefan NäweJan 17, 2014
  16. Philip OakleyJan 21, 2014
  17. Junio C HamanoJan 21, 2014
  18. Philip OakleyJan 22, 2014
  19. Junio C HamanoJan 22, 2014
  20. Philip OakleyJan 22, 2014
  21. Jonathan NiederJan 10, 2014

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