Re: [PATCH 0/6] Make 'git help everyday' work - relnotes

2014-01-22 Thread Philip Oakley
From: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org writes: I already have a local patch that creates a stalenote.txt file, and includes that in a release-notes(7) man page, but it still leaves the actual release notes in a separate plain text file, linked from the man

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Make 'git help everyday' work - relnotes

2014-01-21 Thread Philip Oakley
From: Stefan Näwe stefan.na...@atlas-elektronik.com Am 16.01.2014 22:14, schrieb Philip Oakley: From: Stefan Näwe stefan.na...@atlas-elektronik.com [...] I'd really like to see 'git help relnotes' working as well... Stefan Stefan, Were you thinking that all the release notes would be

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Make 'git help everyday' work - relnotes

2014-01-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org writes: Determining which is the current release note is possibly more problematic, which should be when making the documentation. Hmmm Why? You are already aware of the stale-notes section, no? Isn't the top one the latest? -- To unsubscribe from this

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Make 'git help everyday' work - relnotes

2014-01-21 Thread Philip Oakley
From: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org writes: Determining which is the current release note is possibly more problematic, which should be when making the documentation. Hmmm Why? You are already aware of the stale-notes section, no? Isn't the top one

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Make 'git help everyday' work - relnotes

2014-01-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org writes: I already have a local patch that creates a stalenote.txt file, and includes that in a release-notes(7) man page, but it still leaves the actual release notes in a separate plain text file, linked from the man page, rather than being right at hand,

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Make 'git help everyday' work - relnotes

2014-01-17 Thread Stefan Näwe
Am 16.01.2014 22:14, schrieb Philip Oakley: From: Stefan Näwe stefan.na...@atlas-elektronik.com [...] I'd really like to see 'git help relnotes' working as well... Stefan Stefan, Were you thinking that all the release notes would be quoted verbatim in the one long man page? Or

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Make 'git help everyday' work - relnotes

2014-01-16 Thread Philip Oakley
From: Stefan Näwe stefan.na...@atlas-elektronik.com [...] I'd really like to see 'git help relnotes' working as well... Stefan Stefan, Were you thinking that all the release notes would be quoted verbatim in the one long man page? Or that it would be a set of links to each of the

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Make 'git help everyday' work

2014-01-11 Thread Philip Oakley
From: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org writes: From: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com I think we already use a nicer way to set up a page alias to keep old links working than making a copy in Documentation/; please mimic that if possible. This was mainly

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Make 'git help everyday' work

2014-01-10 Thread Philip Oakley
From: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com I think we already use a nicer way to set up a page alias to keep old links working than making a copy in Documentation/; please mimic that if possible. This was mainly about ensuring that the 'git help' command could access these extra extra guides that

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Make 'git help everyday' work

2014-01-10 Thread Stefan Näwe
Am 10.01.2014 00:49, schrieb Junio C Hamano: I think we already use a nicer way to set up a page alias to keep old links working than making a copy in Documentation/; please mimic that if possible. It may be overdue to refresh the suggested set of top 20 commands, as things have vastly

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Make 'git help everyday' work

2014-01-10 Thread Junio C Hamano
Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org writes: From: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com I think we already use a nicer way to set up a page alias to keep old links working than making a copy in Documentation/; please mimic that if possible. This was mainly about ensuring that the 'git help'

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Make 'git help everyday' work

2014-01-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Philip Oakley wrote: The Everyday GIT With 20 Commands Or So guide is not accessible via the git help system. Fix that. Neat. :) Junio covered everything I'd want to say about patch 1/6. After fixing that, I'd suggest squashing all 6 patches into a single patch. They all are part of

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Make 'git help everyday' work

2014-01-10 Thread Philip Oakley
From: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org writes: From: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com I think we already use a nicer way to set up a page alias to keep old links working than making a copy in Documentation/; please mimic that if possible. This was mainly

[PATCH 0/6] Make 'git help everyday' work

2014-01-09 Thread Philip Oakley
The Everyday GIT With 20 Commands Or So guide is not accessible via the git help system. Fix that. The git everyday file does not use the appropriate filenaming convention for help files, and is not suitably formatted for display as a man page. First copy everyday.txt to giteveryday.txt Second

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Make 'git help everyday' work

2014-01-09 Thread Junio C Hamano
I think we already use a nicer way to set up a page alias to keep old links working than making a copy in Documentation/; please mimic that if possible. It may be overdue to refresh the suggested set of top 20 commands, as things have vastly changed over the past 8 years. Perhaps we should do