On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 02:33:52AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
I am starting to think it has grown in an unnecessarily complex
direction, and we would be much happier just calling all of the
concept documentation git-.
The steps I see are:
I am still undecided on whether it is a good idea (in
Jeff King p...@peff.net writes:
Right. So we have some that must be gitfoo, and others that do not
care. If we turned githooks into git-hooks and removed the is it a
command? magic from git help, then git help hooks would still find
hooks. And likewise, git help gitignore would still find
On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 10:52:52AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
4. Replace the rename gitfoo above with a see git-foo... pointer.
Users of git help foo would not ever see this, but people who
have trained their fingers to type man gitfoo would, along with
anybody
Jeff King p...@peff.net writes:
On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 10:52:52AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
4. Replace the rename gitfoo above with a see git-foo... pointer.
Users of git help foo would not ever see this, but people who
have trained their fingers to type man gitfoo would,
When looking up a topic via git help topic, git-help prepends git-
to topics that are the names of commands (either builtin or found on the
path) and git (no hyphen) to any other topic name.
git-remote-helpers is not the name of a command, so git help
remote-helpers looks for gitremote-helpers
John Keeping j...@keeping.me.uk writes:
When looking up a topic via git help topic, git-help prepends git-
to topics that are the names of commands (either builtin or found on the
path) and git (no hyphen) to any other topic name.
git-remote-helpers is not the name of a command, so git help
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 02:13:10PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
John Keeping j...@keeping.me.uk writes:
When looking up a topic via git help topic, git-help prepends git-
to topics that are the names of commands (either builtin or found on the
path) and git (no hyphen) to any other topic
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 09:59:50PM +, John Keeping wrote:
When looking up a topic via git help topic, git-help prepends git-
to topics that are the names of commands (either builtin or found on the
path) and git (no hyphen) to any other topic name.
git-remote-helpers is not the name of
John Keeping j...@keeping.me.uk writes:
Yes. Should I change it to git-remote-helpers.html.in and then copy
it into place? That seems like the simplest answer and means that
*.html will continue to refer only to generated files.
I'd like to see if we can have a way to keep its look as the
Jeff King p...@peff.net writes:
Maybe it is just me, but the fact that accessing the manpage is now:
man gitremote-helpers
feels weird to me.
It feels equally weird to say man gitremotehelpers (or in general
man git-thing or man gitconcept), to me. I gave up and switched
to git help
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 02:43:20PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
John Keeping j...@keeping.me.uk writes:
Yes. Should I change it to git-remote-helpers.html.in and then copy
it into place? That seems like the simplest answer and means that
*.html will continue to refer only to generated
Jeff King wrote:
Maybe it is just me, but the fact that accessing the manpage is now:
man gitremote-helpers
feels weird to me. I know it technically follows our syntactic rules,
but having the lack of dash be significant between git and remote,
but then having a dash later makes it hard
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes:
Jeff King wrote:
Maybe it is just me, but the fact that accessing the manpage is now:
man gitremote-helpers
feels weird to me. I know it technically follows our syntactic rules,
but having the lack of dash be significant between git and remote,
Junio C Hamano wrote:
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes:
Yes. I have thought for years that it should be git-remote-helpers,
that git help should be tweaked to look for that, and that the
existing gitrepository-layout and friends should be replaced with
redirects.
Because of the
John Keeping j...@keeping.me.uk writes:
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 02:43:20PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
John Keeping j...@keeping.me.uk writes:
Yes. Should I change it to git-remote-helpers.html.in and then copy
it into place? That seems like the simplest answer and means that
*.html
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 03:04:55PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Jeff King wrote:
Maybe it is just me, but the fact that accessing the manpage is now:
man gitremote-helpers
feels weird to me. I know it technically follows our syntactic rules,
but having the lack of dash be
Jeff King p...@peff.net writes:
What was the original rationale for the gitfoo form? Was it just to
visually distinguish command manpages from non-command manpages? I can't
remember the origins now.
b27a23e (Documentation: convert tutorials to man pages, 2008-05-24)
turns tutorial.txt into
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 09:37:51PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Jeff King p...@peff.net writes:
What was the original rationale for the gitfoo form? Was it just to
visually distinguish command manpages from non-command manpages? I can't
remember the origins now.
b27a23e
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