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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Andrew Sayers <andrew-git@pileofstuff.org>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	solsTiCe d'Hiver <solstice.dhiver@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bash-completion: Print a useful error when called in a non-bash shell
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:38:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vr5ilsvtf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C51F2C0.8090101@pileofstuff.org> (Andrew Sayers's message of "Thu\, 29 Jul 2010 22\:29\:36 +0100")

Andrew Sayers <andrew-git@pileofstuff.org> writes:

> Would you be amenable in principle to creating something like `man
> git-bug`?  A quick search doesn't turn up any documents specifically
> about bug fixing/reporting, and a man page was the first place I thought
> to look.

I'd be perfectly fine with something like this.  People may want to add a
sentence or two to give tips on how to make sure that they are actual
bugs.


 Documentation/git.txt |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 59f291d..3ba004f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -727,6 +727,14 @@ The documentation for git suite was started by David Greaves
 <david@dgreaves.com>, and later enhanced greatly by the
 contributors on the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 
+Reporting Bugs
+--------------
+
+If you found a bug, please send a bug report to the Git mailing list
+<git@vger.kernel.org>, where the development and maintenance is primarily
+done.  You do not have to be subscribed to the list to send a message
+there.
+
 SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:gittutorial[7], linkgit:gittutorial-2[7],

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-29 23:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-28 22:32 [PATCH] bash-completion: Print a useful error when called in a non-bash shell Andrew Sayers
2010-07-29 16:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-29 19:05   ` solsTiCe d'Hiver
2010-07-29 21:29   ` Andrew Sayers
2010-07-29 22:16     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-07-29 23:38     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2010-07-30  6:02       ` Stephen Boyd
2010-08-06 21:31 ` Johannes Sixt

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