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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:45:05 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> On 10/22/07, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
> [...]
> >>>>> On 10/20/07, Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Maybe we could group commands into more categories?
> 
> > Similarly, it might be helpful to have help topics the gdb way, like
> > "git help patches". It's one of those things that people have come to
> > expect from a software tool, so perhaps we should humor them? Given gits
> > "every help topic is a man-page" idiom, this shouldn't require any real
> > technical effort.
> >
> > Such topics should probably include
> > merge/merges/merging - overview of various ways of putting two lines of
> > development back together
> > patch/patches - how to create, send and apply
> > tags/branches/refs - what they are, why they're good, link to merging
> 
> Very good idea. It is definitely something that can be worked on.
> 
> By the way, what do you think about "spying" version of git, specially
> marked release which gathers statistics of porcelain used, with
> frequency of its use, and git-sendstats command added in this release?

I like Wincent's approach, scanning .bash_history.

Ciao,
Dscho