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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: point git-prune users to git-gc
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:01:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v63u040lb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080429231917.GB22646@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:19:17 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I'm not so sure that they are interested in the prune command. At first
> I started with just a note near the end, but the point of this is
> specifically to deal with users who "stumble" upon prune, either from
> reading the command list (i.e., trying to match a command to the
> objective they want to perform) or from pre-gc tutorials or emails which
> mention it.

Ah, you are right.  People tend to stop reading when they _think_ they
heard enough even though they haven't.  The note upfront is good, and I
suspect we would not have to reword the latter parts either then.

>> > +Notes
>> > +-----
>> > +
>> > +In most cases, users will not need to call git-prune directly, but
>> > +should instead call linkgit:git-gc[1], which handles pruning along with
>> > +many other housekeeping tasks.
>> 
>> ... this paragraph should be made a bit fatter by mentioning what "other
>> housekeeping tasks" are.
>
> OK, I was trying to imply "go look at git-gc for those tasks" so they
> didn't have to be repeated. Would you prefer it be spelled out
> explicitly here, or is a more firm pointer OK?

Will apply as is.

Thanks.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-04-30  1:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-23 15:41 git-gc doesn't clean up leftover objects after git-filter-branch unless you clone first Avery Pennarun
2008-04-23 17:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-23 18:36   ` Avery Pennarun
2008-04-23 22:13   ` Jeff King
2008-04-24  1:28     ` Jeff King
2008-04-24 15:43       ` Avery Pennarun
2008-04-24 16:14         ` Jeff King
2008-04-24 16:59           ` Avery Pennarun
2008-04-29 20:45             ` [PATCH] Documentation: point git-prune users to git-gc Jeff King
2008-04-29 22:05               ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-29 23:19                 ` Jeff King
2008-04-30  1:01                   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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