From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steven Grimm Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3-rc4 Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 00:03:42 +0800 Message-ID: <46B4A35E.5040601@midwinter.com> References: <7vzm18jg7p.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <200708040341.36147.ismail@pardus.org.tr> <7vsl70jdcr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <46B3F762.1050306@midwinter.com> <7vfy2zj4nj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <46B418AA.4070701@midwinter.com> <20070804091249.GA17821@uranus.ravnborg.org> <46B45B1E.5020104@midwinter.com> <85zm17h4pn.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Sam Ravnborg , Junio C Hamano , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ismail_D=F6nmez?= , git@vger.kernel.org To: David Kastrup X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Aug 04 18:03:51 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IHM6Y-0002vf-Jh for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 04 Aug 2007 18:03:50 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753929AbXHDQDr (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Aug 2007 12:03:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753811AbXHDQDr (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Aug 2007 12:03:47 -0400 Received: from tater2.midwinter.com ([216.32.86.91]:52105 "HELO midwinter.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751808AbXHDQDq (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Aug 2007 12:03:46 -0400 Received: (qmail 29665 invoked from network); 4 Aug 2007 16:03:46 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=200606; d=midwinter.com; b=qV0Du9qbf1GHnHiiKQ3Io/RsBO/WfXkYCdvBWi1z5Ro3IdF/mbWceGp1QZpKSTYM ; Received: from localhost (HELO sgrimm-mbp.local) (koreth@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Aug 2007 16:03:45 -0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) In-Reply-To: <85zm17h4pn.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: > A system such as info, in contrast, is hierarchical, and organized > with indexes and cross references making it much easier to find > things. Really? I find info a huge pain in the butt most of the time. I can't just do a simple text search for the information I want in the relevant manpage; I have to go navigating around to the appropriate subsection (and that's assuming I know where it is) and am forced to use the emacs-style pager whether I like it or not (not a big emacs fan here). It always ticks me off when I go to read the manpage for some command and it tells me to go read the info page if I want complete documentation. I would definitely not want to move to a documentation system that prevented me from typing "man git-commit" to get a list of all the command line options for that command. However, that said, I have no objection to an alternate view of the same information that's organized differently. Am I alone in my dislike of info, I wonder? -Steve