From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>,
Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Subject: Re: Adding Git to Better SCM Initiative : Comparison
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:53:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200711300253.55759.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711300226.54338.johan@herland.net>
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Johan Herland wrote:
> On Friday 30 November 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:
>>> Jakub Narebski, Thu, Nov 29, 2007 03:26:12 +0100:
>>
>>>> + <s id="git">
>>>> + Medium. There's Git User's Manual, manpages, some
>>>> + technical documentation and some howtos. All
>>>> + documentation is also available online in HTML format;
>>>> + there is additional information (including beginnings
>>>> + of FAQ) on git wiki.
>>>> + Nevertheles one of complaints in surveys is insufficient
>>>
>>> "Nevertheless" (two "s").
>>>
>>> BTW, I wouldn't call the level of documentation "Medium" when compared
>>> to any commercial SCM. How can they earn more than "a little", when
>>> compared to any opensource program?
>>
>> Source code is not [user level] documentation.
>>
>> But perhaps it should be "Good" instead of "Medium", although I think
>> not "Excellent".
>
> If we try to compare ourselves to what's closest, i.e. Mercurial, I would
> say that Git's documentation is probably on par with what Mercurial has to
> offer. Their "Documentation" entry in the comparison is as follows:
>
> "Very good. There's an overview and tutorial on the web site, and integrated
> help for every command."
>
> I say we go for something similar.
Well, at least according to surveys results people perceive
"The Mercurial Book" (hgbook) as better documentation than
"Git User's Manual" + tutorials. See for example frequent requests
for "The Git Book" patterned after hgbook and/or svnbook.
BTW. the list was meant to be updated by contributors who added
SCMs, but it doesn't liik lik it is...
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-30 1:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-28 22:39 Adding Git to Better SCM Initiative : Comparison Jakub Narebski
2007-11-29 1:48 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-11-29 7:17 ` Jan Hudec
2007-11-29 2:26 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-29 20:07 ` Alex Riesen
2007-11-30 0:18 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-30 1:26 ` Johan Herland
2007-11-30 1:53 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2007-11-30 7:16 ` Alex Riesen
2007-11-30 18:34 ` Jan Hudec
2007-12-03 19:57 ` Jakub Narebski
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-12-10 12:57 Jakub Narebski
2007-12-10 13:09 ` Eyvind Bernhardsen
2007-12-10 13:20 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-12-10 14:33 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-10 14:49 ` Florian Weimer
2007-12-10 15:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-10 15:36 ` Florian Weimer
2007-12-10 15:47 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-12-10 16:28 ` Florian Weimer
2007-12-10 16:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-10 16:50 ` Chris Shoemaker
2007-12-10 17:21 ` Jakub Narebski
[not found] ` <200801071057.27710.shlomif@iglu.org.il>
2008-01-13 0:44 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-01-14 0:14 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-01-14 0:31 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-01-14 6:58 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-01-14 12:14 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-01-13 15:05 linux
2008-01-13 15:16 ` Matthieu Moy
2008-01-13 16:25 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-01-13 18:42 ` linux
2008-01-13 19:20 ` linux
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