On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 12:04:20AM -0400, CrestChristopher wrote: > > > > Okay, the way Git works via HTTP is actually documented in [1], > > > > and trust me, you're supposed to read it several times to understand > > > > completely. > > > Documented in [1] ? > > Exactly. The numbered reference was at the mail's bottom, as usually. > Sorry I don't follow ?
Maybe we're talking over each other's head ;-) Here is a link to my message we're discussing: <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/git-users/qg__MinyTqg/7tBl0jGSDgAJ>. If you squint at it, you'll notice it refers to a link which is then presented at the message's bottom using the number 1 used for reference. Is this what you're asking about? Or is it something else completely? I guess you may get fooled a bit with the way Google Groups work. They present you with a (rather clumsy, IMO) web interface which allows you to compose HTML-formatted mails with embedded links, which you can create right there in the message editor provided by that interface. But at the same time, each group available on Google Groups is in fact a plain "mailing list" (see <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_mailing_list>), with the web interface being merely an interactive "gateway" allowing people to post messages and read them. Still, many "old-school" people, me included, use groups available via Google Groups no different than other mailing lists - by receiving messages posted there in their mail inboxes and reading/writing them using their mail client (think of Thunderbird, Outlook etc). "Old-schoolers" typically despise HTML-formatted mails, and consider them being plain text, so they format them as such. With this style, links to external material are usually provided at the message's bottom to not clutter the text, and are numbered. Where you want to refer to one of those links, you insert its number. Did I guess right? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
