From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a birdview-on-the-source-code section to the user manual Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 13:36:22 -0400 Message-ID: <20070509173622.GE23778@fieldses.org> References: <20070509031803.GA27980@fieldses.org> <7vps5azlm1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7v4pmmzivz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Johannes Schindelin , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 09 19:36:31 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 1Hlq5W-0001vb-IS for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 09 May 2007 19:36:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755669AbXEIRg0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 13:36:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755700AbXEIRg0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 13:36:26 -0400 Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:54723 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755669AbXEIRgZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 13:36:25 -0400 Received: from bfields by fieldses.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Hlq5O-0008OB-NM; Wed, 09 May 2007 13:36:22 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7v4pmmzivz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:05:36PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Having said that, I do not think the patch belongs to the "git > USER'S manual". Well, we could remove the word "user" from the name. There's a pretty good continuum between users and hackers, and that's as it should be. (Where do you document "porcelain" level stuff?) > It is a very good introductory material for a separate "git hackers > manual", though. But that would be OK too, as long as we have a clear idea how we're going to decide what goes in which manual. No need to wait until the whole thing's done--we could commit an initial version of it Johannes's work and your outline and fill in the rest later. --b.