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Package: git-core
Version: 1:1.6.6-1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man1/git-diff.1.gz
Hi,
we had a discussion about the learning curve of git on irc and one
example was how a new user is supposed to find git-format-patch. He
would probably look at git-diff because that is the most similar thing
to other tools. It would be good if the git-diff manpage mentioned
git-format-patch, e.g. in a SEE ALSO section, since it performes a
similar job and just might be what the user really is looking for.
There are probably more connections that could be made between the
different manpages for git but that was the one example.
MfG
Goswin
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.6-xen-2010.02.18 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages git-core depends on:
ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.19.7-1 Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii libdigest-sha1-perl 2.12-1 NIST SHA-1 message digest algorith
ii liberror-perl 0.17-1 Perl module for error/exception ha
ii libexpat1 2.0.1-7 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii perl-modules 5.10.1-9 Core Perl modules
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages git-core recommends:
ii less 436-1 pager program similar to more
ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:5.2p1-2 secure shell (SSH) client, for sec
ii patch 2.6-2 Apply a diff file to an original
ii rsync 3.0.7-1 fast remote file copy program (lik
Versions of packages git-core suggests:
pn git-arch <none> (no description available)
pn git-cvs <none> (no description available)
pn git-daemon-run <none> (no description available)
pn git-doc <none> (no description available)
pn git-email <none> (no description available)
pn git-gui <none> (no description available)
pn git-svn <none> (no description available)
ii gitk 1:1.6.6-1 fast, scalable, distributed revisi
pn gitweb <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 1:1.7.4.1-1
Hi Goswin,
Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> we had a discussion about the learning curve of git on irc and one
> example was how a new user is supposed to find git-format-patch. He
> would probably look at git-diff because that is the most similar thing
> to other tools. It would be good if the git-diff manpage mentioned
> git-format-patch, e.g. in a SEE ALSO section, since it performes a
> similar job and just might be what the user really is looking for.
Fixed by v1.7.3.2~10 (Documentation: expand 'git diff' SEE ALSO
section, 2010-10-11). Thanks for suggesting it.
Regards,
Jonathan
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