Re: [PATCH 2/3] git-column.1: clarify initial description, provide examples

2018-09-21 Thread frederik
Thank you Junio, maybe I will have another chance to get practice sending a v2 patch. On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 09:32:00AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > frede...@ofb.net writes: > > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 06:23:03PM +0200, Duy Nguyen wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 03:59:58PM -0700, Junio

Re: [PATCH 0/3] some documentation changes from the beginning of the alphabet

2018-09-20 Thread frederik
> Patches are welcome. I'd be happy to patch git-contacts to link to the message you just sent, then maybe someone more qualified would know where to start... :) Frederick On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 01:18:30AM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 6:49 PM Junio C Hamano wrote: > >

Re: [PATCH 2/3] git-column.1: clarify initial description, provide examples

2018-09-20 Thread frederik
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 06:23:03PM +0200, Duy Nguyen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 03:59:58PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > @@ -23,7 +26,7 @@ OPTIONS > > > > > > --mode=:: > > > Specify layout mode. See configuration variable column.ui for option > > > - syntax. > > > + syntax (in

Re: [PATCH 1/3] git-archimport.1: specify what kind of Arch we're talking about

2018-09-19 Thread frederik
> I think "Is it a CPU archtecture?" is a red-herring, but between It wasn't meant to be a red-herring though. Plenty of Linux distributions have different architecture-specific package repos, and arch is a common abbreviation for architecture. This only comes up if you search for the full word

Re: de-alphabetizing the documentation

2018-08-10 Thread frederik
Hi Jonathan and Git developers, I poked around today and figured out how to reorder the command listings in the manual page, they are taken from git/command-list.txt so I just reorder the lines in that file (after disabling sorting in git/Documentation/cmd-list.perl). I haven't reordered the

Re: de-alphabetizing the documentation

2018-07-24 Thread frederik
Hello Jonathan, Thank you for replying to me earlier. I just wanted to follow up on this thread. Did you decide not to go with my proposal? Next week I should have time to send you a patch with the manual page reordered... although, unless you have a special 'diff' which can detect when text has

Re: de-alphabetizing the documentation

2018-07-07 Thread frederik
Hi Jonathan, If it's really just a matter of needing someone with a newcomer's perspective, then I'd be happy to look over the ordering of the git subcommands. You can run the command I provided to glean the frequency of each subcommand from your shell history, I'll look over the output and see

Re: de-alphabetizing the documentation

2018-07-06 Thread frederik
Thank you Jonathan for signaling your willingness to adopt the documentation philosophy I suggested. That's a quite valuable first step. Unfortunately my contribution will have to be limited for the moment to making this suggestion, as I am extraordinarily busy. I hope it will not be too

de-alphabetizing the documentation

2018-07-06 Thread frederik
Dear Git Developers, I am trying to learn how to use Git but I've been put off by not knowing where to start. I would like to start with the 'git' man page, but it lists the Git subcommands in alphabetical order, rather than in an order which would be useful for learners. For example, I'm not