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Re: [PATCH 1/1] documentation: remove empty doc files

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 22, 2019, 23:51 UTC
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Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com> writes:
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> As for the content of this change, I absolutely approve. I've stumbled
> across some of these empty docs while looking for answers before and
> found it really demoralizing - the community is so interested in
> teaching me how to contribute that they've sat on a TODO for 12 years?
> :( I even held up api-grep.txt as a (bad) example in a talk I gave this
> year. I'm happy to see these files go.

I'd approve this move, too, especially if we accompanied deletion with addition (or verification of existence) of necessary docs elsewhere (perhaps in *.h headers).

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  1. 0/1 [Outreachy] documentation: remove empty doc filesHeba Waly via GitGitGadget, Oct 22, 2019
  2. 1/1 documentation: remove empty doc filesHeba Waly via GitGitGadget, Oct 22, 2019
  3. Emily ShafferOct 22, 2019
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 22, 2019
  5. Heba WalyOct 23, 2019
  6. Heba WalyOct 23, 2019
  7. 0/1 [Outreachy] documentation: remove empty doc filesHeba Waly via GitGitGadget, Oct 23, 2019
  8. 1/1 documentation: remove empty doc filesHeba Waly via GitGitGadget, Oct 23, 2019
  9. Emily ShafferOct 23, 2019
  10. Heba WalyOct 24, 2019
  11. 0/1 [Outreachy] documentation: remove empty doc filesHeba Waly via GitGitGadget, Oct 24, 2019
  12. 1/1 documentation: remove empty doc filesHeba Waly via GitGitGadget, Oct 24, 2019
  13. Emily ShafferOct 24, 2019

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