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Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] Documentation for common user misconceptions

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 6, 2019, 01:58 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> Thanks. I think this is an improvement over v1, but I'm still a little
> iffy on some of the other movement in the first patch.
>
> TBH, I don't think it's making anything _worse_, but I think it
> highlights how some of our documentation is a mish-mash of low-level and
> high-level details. ;) So it might be a good opportunity to at least
> clean up the documentation around ident environment variables.

Yeah, I hate to suggest another round, but agree with your comments on 1/4 wrt the way how and the place where the environment variables are explained, which invalidates the changes in 2/4. Fortunately 3/4 and 4/4 are unaffected ;-)

Thanks.
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Message 21 of 25 in “Documentation for common user misconceptions”
  1. 0/4 Documentation for common user misconceptionsbrian m. carlson, Nov 2, 2019
  2. 2/4 doc: provide guidance on user.name formatbrian m. carlson, Nov 2, 2019
  3. Jakub NarebskiNov 3, 2019
  4. brian m. carlsonNov 3, 2019
  5. 3/4 doc: dissuade users from trying to ignore tracked filesbrian m. carlson, Nov 2, 2019
  6. rsbecker@nexbridge.comNov 2, 2019
  7. Jakub NarebskiNov 3, 2019
  8. Jakub NarebskiNov 3, 2019
  9. brian m. carlsonNov 3, 2019
  10. Jakub NarebskiNov 3, 2019
  11. brian m. carlsonNov 3, 2019
  12. Jakub NarebskiNov 5, 2019
  13. Jeff KingNov 4, 2019
  14. brian m. carlsonNov 4, 2019
  15. 4/4 docs: mention when increasing http.postBuffer is valuablebrian m. carlson, Nov 2, 2019
  16. 1/4 doc: move author and committer information to git-commit(1)brian m. carlson, Nov 2, 2019
  17. Jakub NarebskiNov 3, 2019
  18. Jeff KingNov 4, 2019
  19. Junio C HamanoNov 6, 2019
  20. Jeff KingNov 4, 2019
  21. Junio C HamanoNov 6, 2019
  22. brian m. carlsonNov 6, 2019
  23. Junio C HamanoNov 6, 2019
  24. Emily ShafferJan 16, 2020
  25. brian m. carlsonJan 16, 2020

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