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From: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
To: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha•warpmail.net>
Cc: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail•com>,
	David Aguilar <davvid@gmail•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org, Josh Bleecher Snyder <josharian@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: Config variables and scripting // was Re: [RFC/PATCH] log: add log.firstparent option
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 10:35:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150723173542.GA18686@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55B0B9A1.7060609@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 11:53:37AM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote:

> That reminds me of my attempt to add those "categories" to the man pages
> of each command (rather than just to that of "git") so that users know
> where they landed. It died off, though: I preferred just specifying the
> category (maybe with a long form), others including the whole
> explanation of the category (which I thought would be too much text; we
> have the glossary for that).
> 
> Would something like that help? Maybe "category" plus optionally pointer
> to a related command in the "other" category.

Maybe a "SCRIPTING" section at the end of the page?

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-23 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-23  1:23 [RFC/PATCH] log: add log.firstparent option Jeff King
2015-07-23  4:40 ` Config variables and scripting // was " David Aguilar
2015-07-23  5:14   ` Jeff King
2015-07-23  5:48     ` Jeff King
2015-07-23  6:32       ` Jacob Keller
2015-07-23  6:53         ` Jeff King
2015-07-23  6:55           ` Jacob Keller
2015-07-23  9:53             ` Michael J Gruber
2015-07-23 17:35               ` Jeff King [this message]
2015-07-23 17:37     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-23 22:14 ` Stefan Beller
2015-07-24  7:40   ` Jeff King
2015-07-24  7:46     ` Jacob Keller
2015-07-24  8:17       ` Jeff King
2015-07-24 15:31     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-25  1:36       ` Jeff King
2015-07-25  1:47         ` Jeff King
2015-07-25 17:18           ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-27  4:43             ` Jeff King
2015-07-23 22:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-24  6:07   ` Jacob Keller
2015-07-24  7:34     ` Jeff King
2015-07-24  7:44       ` Jacob Keller
2015-07-24 15:04       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-24 18:13         ` Jeff King
2015-07-24  7:21   ` Jeff King
2015-07-24  7:23   ` Jeff King
2015-07-24 15:07     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-25  2:05       ` Jeff King
2015-07-25 17:41         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-25 22:41           ` Jacob Keller
2015-07-27  4:55           ` Jeff King

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