From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brett Schwarz Subject: Re: [PATCH] user-manual: mention git gui citool (commit, amend) Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 20:33:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <608102.66070.qm@web38905.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: Steffen Prohaska , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" , "J. Bruce Fields" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Aug 06 05:33:35 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 1IHtLa-0006rW-Cl for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 05:33:34 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757832AbXHFDdb (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Aug 2007 23:33:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755858AbXHFDdb (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Aug 2007 23:33:31 -0400 Received: from web38905.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.125.111]:27086 "HELO web38905.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755310AbXHFDda convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Aug 2007 23:33:30 -0400 Received: (qmail 66075 invoked by uid 60001); 6 Aug 2007 03:33:29 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=WK1wZ9tvzBhoo7frMc2pFBs4EDdeKAujw9BD6SbORkRm2tdLASd/4Dr4yncUlZBrfsIzUXZnQCtGDvts64DF3TQqg9XD4nbtLt3eHTtmSQEHBs7CGCvRXfaBhlnG2lcEV1ygVaYmx1ftKkyBEpaw6C6Sg4cgYGiaTd0no0W27UM=; X-YMail-OSG: dMwwCk8VM1m0k4sKmhr4GlEo_aFRNMZ7jkdwjfrH0y7J2PJVhNgZj3gT4rwvTx_kpP7JF215UVJnhEcwvhbkpKvPtWvqUEhtTNSo1T7cRAM.IkLS1.Fiki_HlA-- Received: from [24.16.125.24] by web38905.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 20:33:29 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/651.41 YahooMailWebService/0.7.119 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Shawn O. Pearce > To: J. Bruce Fields > Cc: Steffen Prohaska ; git@vger.kernel.org > Sent: Friday, August 3, 2007 11:20:10 PM > Subject: Re: [PATCH] user-manual: mention git gui citool (commit, amend) > > "J. Bruce Fields" wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:04:59PM -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > > > Online help? In git-gui? :-) > > > > > > We don't have an online help system yet. > > > > Fair enough. > > > > Though I'd like to keep the main body of the manual focused on the major > > command line tools, I'd have no objection to a separate chapter (or > > appendix?) devoted to git-gui; then you could point directly at that. > > Would that make sense? > > Yea, that makes a lot of sense. git-gui isn't a full replacement > for the command line anyway, so I would never suggest a wholesale > rewrite of the user manual to slant the entire thing towards git-gui. > Doing so would only point out the many shortcomings in git-gui. :) > > I haven't explored any in-Tk rendering options yet, been too busy > with other projects. Ideally I'd like to just render the asciidoc > markup directly, but I don't think anyone has done an asciidoc > viewer for Tk. I can't imagine it would be that difficult to get > some sort of parser working though... > > So, I took a stab at this earlier today, and it is fairly straight forward. I have something that is semi working (I haven't tested all the scenarios yet), but the rest is just really filling in the blanks. Question though: I was going to have a index tree on a side panel...but do you want this thing to only bring up the git-gui.txt file, and show the table of contents, or do you want all *.txt files in the index? Or .... ? Thanks, --brett ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545469