From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Greaves Subject: Re: [patch] add simple git documentation Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 08:35:56 +0100 Message-ID: <427DC15C.3080208@dgreaves.com> References: <20050505102600.GA16387@elf.ucw.cz> <20050506175835.65b9c9c1.akpm@osdl.org> <427C7E38.3010301@dgreaves.com> <20050507113618.GA9495@pasky.ji.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Morton , Pavel Machek , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun May 08 09:30:05 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUgDz-0006uA-Dc for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 08 May 2005 09:29:15 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262822AbVEHHgO (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 May 2005 03:36:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262823AbVEHHgO (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 May 2005 03:36:14 -0400 Received: from s2.ukfsn.org ([217.158.120.143]:2728 "EHLO mail.ukfsn.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262822AbVEHHgI (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 May 2005 03:36:08 -0400 Received: from localhost (lucy.ukfsn.org [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2A94E6A96; Sun, 8 May 2005 08:35:13 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (lucy.ukfsn.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 14236-11; Sun, 8 May 2005 08:35:13 +0100 (BST) Received: from oak.dgreaves.com (unknown [217.135.156.200]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 070C9E6A93; Sun, 8 May 2005 08:35:13 +0100 (BST) Received: from ash.dgreaves.com ([10.0.0.90]) by oak.dgreaves.com with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1DUgKS-0004zj-H9; Sun, 08 May 2005 08:35:56 +0100 User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050331) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Petr Baudis In-Reply-To: <20050507113618.GA9495@pasky.ji.cz> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Petr Baudis wrote: >Dear diary, on Sat, May 07, 2005 at 10:37:12AM CEST, I got a letter >where David Greaves told me that... > > >>Andrew Morton wrote: >> >> >>>Pavel Machek wrote: >>> >>> >>>>This adds short intro to git aimed at kernel hackers. >>>> >>>> >>>OK, but I'm hoping that shortly we'll have something more complete than >>>this, and your patch might not be a suitable starting point for that. >>>(Large hint-dropping sounds). >>> >>> >>What are you looking for. >> >>For man-page-a-like, have you seen Documentation/core-git.txt in Linus' >>repository? >> >>I'll be working more on that this weekend. >> >> >Are you planning to split it to individual files at some point? > > Yes. I'll see how using asciidoc affects that. And with Linus vacationing it looks like there'll be time this week. >(That's what I'd like to do with Documentation/cogito/, speaking of >manpageness...) > > OK BTW, whatever happened to perlification - the initial stab I sent you used the perl/pod approach. The reason I ask is that that means the docs should/could be initially written as here-documents within the scripts rather than external manpages. David