On 9/13/2012 2:40 PM, Steve Borho wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Ross Boylan <[email protected]> wrote: >> I started to write a note about one particular discrepancy I noticed >> between a menu I saw and the menu in the manual. It has turned into a >> long-ish piece on various ways I have trouble figuring out what >> different functions do, even with the documentation. My main hope was >> that this might lead to improved documentation. >> >> What would be the most useful way to share that? Possible responses >> include "don't bother; nobody is going to update the documentation" (: >> There is this list, the developer list, the wiki and the bug tracker. > It's fair to say the documentation is lagging and unloved. > > Optimally, you would send us patches to the documentation sources, > which are in simple text files in Restructured Text format: > https://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg/src/tip/doc/source > > Somewhat less optimal would be an email describing what the text > should say, this could be patched by someone in a small amount of > time. > > Anything less would have a strong possibility of being quickly forgotten. > Bummer. Unfortunately, I generally couldn't provide patches even if I had the time, since to provide a patch I'd have to know what a command does, and my problem is I often don't. I can explain the problem, but not solve it.
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