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From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
To: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Cc: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tutorial.txt renamed
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 07:07:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901070707.36263.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DA6E1A83-FFBA-46BC-9BCF-ED8A2D8F12E7@silverinsanity.com>

Le mercredi 7 janvier 2009, Brian Gernhardt a écrit :
> On Jan 7, 2009, at 12:28 AM, Christian Couder wrote:
> > Le mercredi 7 janvier 2009, Joey Hess a écrit :
> >> diff --git a/README b/README
> >> index 548142c..5fa41b7 100644
> >> --- a/README
> >> +++ b/README
> >> @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with
> >> help
> >> of a group of hackers around the net. It is currently maintained by
> >> Junio
> >> C Hamano.
> >>
> >> Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
> >> -See Documentation/tutorial.txt to get started, then see
> >> +See Documentation/gittutorial.txt to get started,
> >
> > "man gittutorial" and "git help tutorial" should work to display the
> > tutorial, so perhaps we should advise to use them instead of the
> > source,
> > since we are advising to use "man git-commandname" below to get help
> > on
> > each command.
>
> This is the README file for the project, so it should advise looking
> at the Documentation directory as neither the man pages or git command
> are likely installed at this point.

Well, this is debatable, because we first ask the user to read the INSTALL 
file, and a tutorial for git may not be very usefull if you don't have it 
installed to try out the tutorial commands.

Regards,
Christian.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-07  6:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-07  4:23 [PATCH] tutorial.txt renamed Joey Hess
2009-01-07  5:28 ` Christian Couder
2009-01-07  5:36   ` Brian Gernhardt
2009-01-07  6:07     ` Christian Couder [this message]
2009-01-07  6:27     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-08  9:21       ` Brian Foster

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