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From: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: spearce@spearce.org, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Documentation/git-gc.txt: add reference to githooks
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:16:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C2A3889.90407@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vfx05by9t.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 29/06/10 09:26, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com> writes:
>   
>> +HOOKS
>> +-----
>> +This command can run `pre-auto-gc` hook.  See linkgit:githooks[5] for more
>> +information.
>>     
> Hmm.  "git gc --auto" does, but "git gc" doesn't, and saying "can run"
> only adds to the sense of incompleteness of the description here without
> giving useful information to the reader (iow, the user will have to check
> the referred-to page anyway).  We would need to either remove the first
> sentence (leaving only "See ... for information") or clarify the first
> sentence a bit better, I think.
>   
How about

The `git gc --auto` command will run the `pre-auto-gc` hook, if
enabled.  See linkgit:githooks[5] for more information.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-29 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-28 16:10 notify alternative to auto gc? Karl Stenerud
2010-06-28 16:26 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-28 16:52   ` Karl Stenerud
2010-06-29  6:46     ` Matthieu Moy
2010-06-30  2:27   ` Sam Vilain
2010-06-28 16:27 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-06-28 16:29 ` Chris Packham
2010-06-28 16:56   ` Karl Stenerud
2010-06-28 17:07   ` [PATCH/RFC] Documentation/git-gc.txt: add reference to githooks Chris Packham
2010-06-28 18:43     ` Marc Branchaud
2010-06-29 15:43       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-29 16:00         ` Chris Packham
2010-06-29 16:26     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-29 18:16       ` Chris Packham [this message]
2010-06-30 20:41         ` [PATCHv2] " Chris Packham
2010-09-21 18:14     ` [PATCH/RFC] " David Brown
2010-09-21 20:52       ` Allow git remote add but not git clone ( was Re: [PATCH/RFC] Documentation/git-gc.txt: add reference to githooks) Chris Packham
2010-09-21 21:01         ` David Brown
2010-09-21 23:18       ` Re* [PATCH/RFC] Documentation/git-gc.txt: add reference to githooks Junio C Hamano
2010-06-28 18:58   ` notify alternative to auto gc? Eric Raible
2010-06-28 19:02     ` Jacob Helwig

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