Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 04:41:34PM CEST, I got a letter
where David Greaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that...
> If Petr wants the top comment to be extracted by help then maybe a
> bottom comment block could contain the more complete text?
> I *really* think that the user docs should live in the source for now
> (hence I think that git man is better than going straight to man/docbook).
I'd stay with the top comment for now, and go for perldoc in the Perl
scripts. It's cool, nice, and you can export it to anything and it still
looks mostly cute.
> I wasn't sure whether to perlise the code or do a shell-lib - but
> looking at the algorithms needed in things like git status I reckon the
> shell will end up becoming a hackish mess of awk/sed/tr/sort/uniq/pipe
> (ie perl) anyway.
I'm all for slow migration from sh to Perl so that we can add more cream
on the stuff. Shell was great for the first phase of rapid development
(where basically the most important thing was to be able to call the
core git easily, and just wrap it around) but now if you want to do the
fancier stuff (like git status, or even git log), it's getting more of a
nuisance.
--
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor
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