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From: "Julia Evans" <julia@jvns.ca>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Julia Evans" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	"D. Ben Knoble" <ben.knoble@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] doc: use `man git` to teach users how to navigate the docs
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:57:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2ef42736-8879-4399-bbe9-3ba09522373d@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqv77dbp1e.fsf@gitster.g>

On Wed, Oct 7, 2026, at 9:47 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Julia Evans" <julia@jvns.ca> writes:
>
>>> Nitpick: Okay, but with the current commit message I don’t really
>>> understand why the git.github.io link is gone. I have to guess that it
>>> is an effective duplicate of git-scm or something since git-scm does
>>> remain after this change.
>>
>> Yep! It has the same content as https://git-scm.com as far as I know,
>
> Correct.  That is direct rendition of what we ship.  git-scm.com has
> some fruff around it (grouping and other meaningful usability
> improvements besides coloring and fonts), but I do not know how
> up-to-date the contents or the grouping is and how they are kept
> synchronized to the originals at git.github.io/htmldocs/git.html.

Yeah, the grouping at https://git-scm.com/docs is a bit out of date.
I'm not sure how to fix it in a satisfactory way.

  reply	other threads:[~2026-10-07 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-28 20:32 [PATCH] [doc] Use `man git` to teach users how to navigate the docs Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2026-09-28 21:02 ` Ben Knoble
2026-09-29  2:00   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-09-29 11:29     ` Julia Evans
2026-09-29 19:51       ` Junio C Hamano
2026-09-29 21:00         ` Julia Evans
2026-09-29 21:20           ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-06 20:06 ` [PATCH v2] doc: use " Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2026-10-06 20:23   ` D. Ben Knoble
2026-10-07  6:06   ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-10-07 12:13     ` Julia Evans
2026-10-07 13:47       ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-07 13:57         ` Julia Evans [this message]
2026-10-07 17:35           ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-07 19:13   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-07 19:29     ` Julia Evans
2026-10-07 20:08       ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-08 15:09         ` Julia Evans

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