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From: "Jakub Narebski" <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: "Christian Couder" <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Documentation: convert tutorials to man pages
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 11:55:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8fe92b430805020255r1a06e169te583c371bde83ade@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080502053051.c8066c4e.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

On 5/2/08, Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> wrote:
> This patch renames the following documents and at the same time converts
>  them to the man page format:
>
>  cvs-migration.txt -> gitcvs-migration.txt
>  everyday.txt      -> giteveryday.txt
>  tutorial.txt      -> gittutorial.txt
>  tutorial-2.txt    -> gittutorial-2.txt

I like the rest of the series, but this I have serious doubts about. I think
that manpage format is just not suitable for guides and tutorials (larger
works), especially that we have HTML and beginnings of info versions.

Beside, the filenames looks stupid... githooks would go in a pinch, but
other names...
-- 
Jakub Narebski

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-02  9:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-02  3:30 [PATCH 3/3] Documentation: convert tutorials to man pages Christian Couder
2008-05-02  9:55 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2008-05-02 12:49   ` Jeff King
2008-05-02 14:31     ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-05-03  4:04     ` Christian Couder
2008-05-03 17:44       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-05  3:48         ` Documentation status (was Re: [PATCH 3/3] Documentation: convert tutorials to man pages) Christian Couder
2008-05-05  4:27           ` Documentation status Junio C Hamano
2008-05-05  7:34             ` Jakub Narebski
2008-05-06  3:11             ` Christian Couder

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