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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove 'submodules' from the TODO section of the User Manual.
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:02:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070925200252.GV30845@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070925195731.GJ18370@genesis.frugalware.org>

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:57:31PM +0200, Miklos Vajna wrote:
> i was this in the todo:
> 
> "Add a section on working with other version control systems, including
> CVS, Subversion, and just imports of series of release tarballs."
> 
> to questions:
> 
> 1) does this include documentation about git-svn? i mean a howto similar
> to the submodules chapter.

Could be.  Though when I used it I thought the git-svn manpage was
actually very good, so I'd be tempted to just point to that.

> 2) does it worth to document a typical usage of tailor? we used it a lot
> when converting from darcs to git and once you figure out the right
> options, it's really easy to use it. but maybe it's unrelated.

I think we should try to keep the git documentation mostly confined to
tools that are distributed with git itself.  So it might be worth a few
words just to mention the existance of tailor and how it compares to
other tools, but I'd leave it at that.

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-25 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-25 19:11 [PATCH] Remove 'submodules' from the TODO section of the User Manual Miklos Vajna
2007-09-25 19:23 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-09-25 19:47   ` Miklos Vajna
2007-09-25 19:49     ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-09-25 19:57       ` Miklos Vajna
2007-09-25 20:02         ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2007-09-25 20:13           ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-09-25 20:16             ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-09-25 22:37             ` [PATCH] User Manual: document import-tars.perl Miklos Vajna
2007-09-26 18:14               ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-09-26 18:22                 ` Miklos Vajna
2007-09-26 20:37                   ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-09-26 19:58                 ` Johannes Schindelin

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