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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>,
	Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>,
	"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] document string_list_clear
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 15:08:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141210230827.GH16345@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq61djf6nq.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

>>  2. Move documentation to header, being careful enough that the header
>>     sort of works as a standalone document.
>>
>>  3. Move documentation to Documentation/technical/ and keep the header
>>     bare-bones.
[...]
> I am not sure if (2) and (3) are that incompatible, though.  If you
> had an acceptable version of (3), wouldn't it be just the matter of
> indenting the whole thing with "s/^/ */", sprinkle "/**" and "*/" at
> strategic paragraph breaks, and move them back to the corresponding
> header?

Presumably.  There's also the question of whether to use asciidoc
markup, which got mixed in somehow (but I don't see why it has to be ---
a header with asciidoc would be fine with me, as would a file in
Documentation/technical/ without asciidoc).

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-10 23:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-06  1:51 [PATCH] document string_list_clear Stefan Beller
2014-12-06  2:04 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-12-06  5:27   ` Jeff King
2014-12-06  5:30   ` Jeff King
2014-12-09 19:41     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-09 20:15       ` Jeff King
2014-12-09 20:21         ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-12-09 19:37   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-09 19:48     ` Stefan Beller
2014-12-09 20:17       ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-12-09 20:27         ` Jeff King
2014-12-09 20:32           ` Stefan Beller
2014-12-09 20:46             ` Jeff King
2014-12-09 22:23           ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-12-09 23:18             ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-10  8:52               ` Jeff King
2014-12-10  8:43             ` Jeff King
2014-12-10  9:18               ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-12-12  9:16                 ` Jeff King
2014-12-12 18:31                   ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-12-12 19:17                     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-12 19:19                     ` Stefan Beller
2014-12-12 19:29                       ` Jeff King
2014-12-12 19:24                     ` Jeff King
2014-12-12 19:35                       ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-12-12 21:27                         ` Jeff King
2014-12-12 21:28                           ` [PATCH 1/4] strbuf: migrate api-strbuf.txt documentation to strbuf.h Jeff King
2014-12-12 21:40                             ` Jeff King
2014-12-12 22:16                             ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-12 22:30                             ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-12-12 21:28                           ` [PATCH 2/4] strbuf.h: drop asciidoc list formatting from API docs Jeff King
2014-12-12 22:19                             ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-12 22:37                             ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-12-12 21:30                           ` [PATCH 3/4] strbuf.h: format asciidoc code blocks as 4-space indent Jeff King
2014-12-12 22:39                             ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-12-14 17:42                               ` Michael Haggerty
2014-12-12 21:32                           ` [PATCH 4/4] strbuf.h: reorganize api function grouping headers Jeff King
2014-12-12 22:46                             ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-12-12 22:32                           ` [PATCH] document string_list_clear Stefan Beller
2014-12-10 20:09               ` Michael Haggerty
2014-12-10 21:51                 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-12-10 22:28                   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-10 22:37                     ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-12-10 23:04                       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-10 23:08                         ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2014-12-09 22:49         ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-12-09 23:07           ` Stefan Beller
2014-12-09 23:15             ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-12-09 20:00     ` Jonathan Nieder

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