From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian Foster Subject: Re: [PATCH] tutorial.txt renamed Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 10:21:46 +0100 Message-ID: <200901081021.46471.brian.foster@innova-card.com> References: <20090107042337.GA24735@gnu.kitenet.net> <7vljtnbpha.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Reply-To: Brian Foster Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Junio C Hamano , Brian Gernhardt , Christian Couder , Joey Hess To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 08 10:23:33 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LKr6w-000082-8A for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:23:30 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752949AbZAHJWH convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 04:22:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752664AbZAHJWG (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 04:22:06 -0500 Received: from mail-ew0-f17.google.com ([209.85.219.17]:37595 "EHLO mail-ew0-f17.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752403AbZAHJWC convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 04:22:02 -0500 Received: by ewy10 with SMTP id 10so9501739ewy.13 for ; Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:22:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:from:reply-to:to :subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; bh=ayTEeZ9VwWiqjQ/wKEbw19BU0MI4wsCJyJod7H0pfIw=; b=n5ceDWKQYqSWQw5RFwoESpNixhijnwmviC4i18/DKOR9o9IRsrf02yqQyF5mW7jJly SR4ft4biy310aI4QL4J/oqU/N9VaErSsERfNV/ZFAYu6kkaJ7aaWdK4BbcL+MA+9QRu5 IlB2z/J7JdzFWW53yb9C1xvqrP2QlJe2uI/rk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; b=QbG9ph8TkShegPtU3LXBAJ9SVlS0i8Im5ZXqjUY73ypVsQk9gE+z6ZytBEjiMnfd5h UtzetlcIxjfId+jI9Vp9i4hB+Go5L6uquc3sI8W9mgU16NKtGAFVy5iwn+vAStR3q/0Y Nf9pVpiGxlyBuvfbSqVphT6dgfuHEie2yzDfU= Received: by 10.210.38.17 with SMTP id l17mr10784139ebl.134.1231406519869; Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:21:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from innova-card.com (1-61.252-81.static-ip.oleane.fr [81.252.61.1]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p10sm38073060gvf.20.2009.01.08.01.21.55 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:21:58 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 In-Reply-To: <7vljtnbpha.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wednesday 07 January 2009 07:27:13 Junio C Hamano wrote: > Brian Gernhardt writes: > > This is the README file for the project, so it should advise lookin= g =20 > > at the Documentation directory as neither the man pages or git comm= and =20 > > are likely installed at this point. >=20 > I think that is a sane suggestion. It is better to keep the number o= f > prerequisites to the minimum for the user in order to follow README (= and > INSTALL, of course). It is indeed a sane suggestion. However, there is no (obvious?) harm in *also* mentioning that =E2=80=98git help tutorial=E2=80=99 sho= uld also display the tutorial. Something like =E2=80=9CIf git has been correct= ly installed, then this tutorial can also be read with the command =E2=80=98git help tutorial=E2=80=99.=E2=80=9D cheers! -blf- --=20 =E2=80=9CHow many surrealists does it take to | Brian Foster change a lightbulb? Three. One calms | somewhere in south of France the warthog, and two fill the bathtub | Stop E$$o (ExxonMobil)! with brightly-coloured machine tools.=E2=80=9D | http://www.stope= sso.com