From: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@hartwork.org>,
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>, Git ML <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr>
Subject: Re: Parameter --color-words not documented for "git show"
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:16:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110120231649.GC14184@vidovic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vk4hzqnbx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
The 20/01/11, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@hartwork.org> writes:
>
> > On 01/20/11 21:27, Thomas Rast wrote:
> >> Quote from the latter:
> >>
> >> This manual page describes only the most frequently used options.
> >
> > Okay. Is that a good a idea?
>
> Yes; the alternative is to list everything.
Would it be bad? I tend to think that a manual page is the good place to
list everything the program accepts as parameters and how to use them.
FMHO, Manual page is not where newcomers look to learn but it should
help everybody to find and understand all of the available options.
--
Nicolas Sebrecht
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-20 23:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-20 19:58 Parameter --color-words not documented for "git show" Sebastian Pipping
2011-01-20 20:27 ` Thomas Rast
2011-01-20 20:43 ` Sebastian Pipping
2011-01-20 21:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-20 23:16 ` Nicolas Sebrecht [this message]
2011-01-20 23:34 ` Jeff King
2011-01-21 0:05 ` Sebastian Pipping
2011-01-21 0:20 ` Jeff King
2011-01-21 0:27 ` Sebastian Pipping
2011-01-21 6:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-21 16:16 ` Jeff King
2011-01-21 10:08 ` Maaartin
2011-01-21 16:17 ` Jeff King
2011-01-23 10:35 ` Jakub Narebski
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