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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee•org>
Cc: "GitList" <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Make 'git help everyday' work
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:09:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqha9b909p.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0AB7145111924BA986B1E172CD293B1D@PhilipOakley> (Philip Oakley's message of "Fri, 10 Jan 2014 08:06:28 -0000")

"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee•org> writes:

> From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox•com>
>>I think we already use a nicer way to set up a page alias to keep
>> old links working than making a copy in Documentation/; please mimic
>> that if possible.
>
> This was mainly about ensuring that the 'git help' command could
> access these extra extra guides that it currently misses. (Tt also
> misses the 'user-manual', which isn't a man page, but could have a
> link page to guide the seeker of truth between 'git help' and the
> actual user-manual)
>
> The only method I can see for that (via help.c) is to get the filename
> format correct.  Where you thinking of something else?

I do not have an objection against the creation of giteveryday.txt;
I was questioning the way the original everyday.txt was left behind
to bit-rot.  It is good to keep _something_ there, because there may
be old URLs floating around that point at Documentation/everyday.txt,
but the contents of that file does not have to be a stale copy.

Cf. bd4a3d61 (Rename {git- => git}remote-helpers.txt, 2013-01-31)
for how we renamed git-remote-helpers.txt to gitremote-helpers.txt

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-10 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-09 23:13 [PATCH 0/6] Make 'git help everyday' work Philip Oakley
2014-01-09 23:13 ` [PATCH 1/6] copy everyday.txt to giteveryday.txt Philip Oakley
2014-01-09 23:13 ` [PATCH 2/6] Update giteveryday.txt to fit man page formatting Philip Oakley
2014-01-09 23:13 ` [PATCH 3/6] add giteveryday to the manpages make list Philip Oakley
2014-01-09 23:13 ` [PATCH 4/6] Add deprecation note to old everyday.txt Philip Oakley
2014-01-09 23:13 ` [PATCH 5/6] add 'everyday' to the help --guides list Philip Oakley
2014-01-09 23:13 ` [PATCH 6/6] Update git(1) link to giteveryday Philip Oakley
2014-01-09 23:49 ` [PATCH 0/6] Make 'git help everyday' work Junio C Hamano
2014-01-10  8:06   ` Philip Oakley
2014-01-10 18:09     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-01-10 18:59       ` Philip Oakley
2014-01-11 19:50       ` Philip Oakley
2014-01-10  8:18   ` Stefan Näwe
2014-01-16 21:14     ` [PATCH 0/6] Make 'git help everyday' work -> relnotes Philip Oakley
2014-01-17 11:59       ` Stefan Näwe
2014-01-21 22:25         ` Philip Oakley
2014-01-21 23:28           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-01-22  0:22             ` Philip Oakley
2014-01-22  0:40               ` Junio C Hamano
2014-01-22  8:33                 ` Philip Oakley
2014-01-10 20:19 ` [PATCH 0/6] Make 'git help everyday' work Jonathan Nieder

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