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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] user-manual: mention git gui citool (commit, amend)
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 08:58:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070803125846.GC28323@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070803030459.GJ20052@spearce.org>

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.  Basically no documentation
> has been written for git-gui.  No thought has been put into how one
> should be organized, maintained, or displayed to the poor human
> who is just trying to learn more about Git and this gui thing it
> came with.
> 
> Yes, Help->Online Documentation is abvailable to most users, but
> that just opens your web browser (if it can find one) and points
> it to kernel.org's git manual.  Not exactly the best material for
> learning more about git-gui itself.

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?

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-03 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-30 16:11 [PATCH] user-manual: mention git gui citool (commit, amend) Steffen Prohaska
2007-07-31  0:24 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-08-02 18:18 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-08-02 22:24   ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-02 22:31     ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-08-03  5:08       ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-03 12:56         ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-08-05 12:59           ` [PATCH v2] " Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-05 13:58             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-05 14:17               ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-05 14:48                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-05 15:03                 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05 19:47                   ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-06  0:22                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-06  5:20                       ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-06  9:36                       ` Steven Grimm
2007-08-06 11:51                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-05 22:22               ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-08-05 22:25                 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-08-06  0:26                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-06  3:51                   ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-08-06 19:36                     ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-08-06 19:43                       ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-08-03  3:01     ` [PATCH] " Shawn O. Pearce
2007-08-03 12:56       ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-08-04  6:33         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-08-05 12:09         ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-03  0:05   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-03  3:04   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-08-03 12:58     ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2007-08-04  6:20       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-08-04  7:44         ` David Kastrup
2007-08-04 14:35         ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-08-05 12:26         ` Steffen Prohaska
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-06  3:33 Brett Schwarz
2007-08-06  4:06 ` Shawn O. Pearce

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