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Re: An interesting opinion on DVCS/git

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Mar 3, 2015, 23:24 UTC
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Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
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> We have heard this sort of feedback for years. But we have been unable
> to adequately write our own documentation or clean up our man pages to
> be useful to the average person who doesn't know why the --no-frobbing
> option doesn't disable the --frobinator option to the
> --frobbing-subcommand of git frob.  :(

IIU/RC, GSoC is not only about coding. Perhaps doing a proper technical editing of the manual pages could be a summer project, to which GitHub or somebody more skilled than us developers can supply mentorship?

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  1. Stefan BellerMar 2, 2015
  2. Shawn PearceMar 3, 2015
  3. Junio C HamanoMar 3, 2015
  4. Randall S. BeckerMar 3, 2015
  5. David LangMar 4, 2015
  6. Michael J GruberMar 4, 2015
  7. Sitaram ChamartyMar 6, 2015
  8. Philip OakleyMar 9, 2015

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