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From: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
To: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] add simple git documentation
Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 08:35:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <427DC15C.3080208@dgreaves.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050507113618.GA9495@pasky.ji.cz>

Petr Baudis wrote:

>Dear diary, on Sat, May 07, 2005 at 10:37:12AM CEST, I got a letter
>where David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com> told me that...
>  
>
>>Andrew Morton wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>This adds short intro to git aimed at kernel hackers.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>OK, but I'm hoping that shortly we'll have something more complete than
>>>this, and your patch might not be a suitable starting point for that. 
>>>(Large hint-dropping sounds).
>>>      
>>>
>>What are you looking for.
>>
>>For man-page-a-like, have you seen Documentation/core-git.txt in Linus'
>>repository?
>>
>>I'll be working more on that this weekend.
>>    
>>
>Are you planning to split it to individual files at some point?
>  
>
Yes. I'll see how using asciidoc affects that.
And with Linus vacationing it looks like there'll be time this week.

>(That's what I'd like to do with Documentation/cogito/, speaking of
>manpageness...)
>  
>
OK
BTW, whatever happened to perlification - the initial stab I sent you
used the perl/pod approach.
The reason I ask is that that means the docs should/could be initially
written as here-documents within the scripts rather than external manpages.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-08  7:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-05 10:26 [patch] add simple git documentation Pavel Machek
2005-05-07  0:58 ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-07  8:37   ` David Greaves
2005-05-07 11:36     ` Petr Baudis
2005-05-08  7:35       ` David Greaves [this message]
2005-05-07 19:56   ` Pavel Machek

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