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From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Bugfix: stop if directory already exists
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:37:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43785AD4.7020201@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511141029.18256.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>

Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
> So just another suggestion: Why not put most of the
> documentation in a huge "git" man page?

Becuase it's horrible. I like the fact that they are split up.

> cvs does this (3601 lines
> here), all the shells have huge man pages (bash: 4794).
> We would be in a good tradition ;-)
> 

We would be in tradition, but not necessarily a good one. Just because 
some stupid swede let some herrings ferment in a tin can some 800 years 
ago there's really no need to say "surströmming! What a clever idea!!" 
and actually eat the horrible things.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Tel: +46 8-230225                  Fax: +46 8-230231

      reply	other threads:[~2005-11-14  9:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-13 14:03 [PATCH] Bugfix: stop if directory already exists Josef Weidendorfer
2005-11-14  8:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-14  9:28   ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-14 10:36     ` Josef Weidendorfer
2005-11-14 10:47       ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-14 21:30     ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-14  9:29   ` Josef Weidendorfer
2005-11-14  9:37     ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]

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