From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: [PATCH] user-manual: mention git gui citool (commit, amend) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 08:58:47 -0400 Message-ID: <20070803125846.GC28323@fieldses.org> References: <11858118802945-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de> <20070802181853.GB31885@fieldses.org> <20070803030459.GJ20052@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Steffen Prohaska , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 03 14:59:09 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 1IGwkG-000091-Bi for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:59:08 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762687AbXHCM6u (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 08:58:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762689AbXHCM6t (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 08:58:49 -0400 Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:36259 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762536AbXHCM6s (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 08:58:48 -0400 Received: from bfields by fieldses.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IGwjv-0007h0-70; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:58:47 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070803030459.GJ20052@spearce.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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.