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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>,
	gitster@pobox.com, avarab@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/CodingGuidelines: How to document new APIs
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 21:11:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180928011129.GD11281@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180927232732.GA216193@aiede.svl.corp.google.com>

On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 04:27:32PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> > There are different opinions on how to document an API properly.
> > Discussion turns out nobody disagrees with documenting new APIs on the
> > function level in the header file and high level concepts in
> > Documentation/technical, so let's state that in the guidelines.
> 
> I disagree with this.  I think we should put all the API docs in the
> header file, like we're already doing in e.g. strbuf.h.

Me too.

I think other high-level concepts that are _not_ APIs (e.g., file
formats, protocol, etc) could go into technical/.

(Though actually, those are the thing that I would not mind at all if
they get formatted into real manpages and shipped to end users. We do
not expect most users to dissect our file-formats, but they could at
least be useful to somebody poking around).

> Do you have a link to where in the discussion this split-docs strategy
> was decided?

I think the purpose of this patch is to spur people towards a decision.
:)

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-28  1:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-21 22:35 [PATCHv3 0/8] fetch: make sure submodule oids are fetched Stefan Beller
2018-09-21 22:35 ` [PATCH 1/8] sha1-array: provide oid_array_filter Stefan Beller
2018-09-22 12:58   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-25 19:26     ` Stefan Beller
2018-09-26  4:15       ` Jeff King
2018-09-26 17:10         ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-26 17:49           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-26 18:27             ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-26 18:34               ` Jeff King
2018-09-26 18:43               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-26 18:58                 ` Jeff King
2018-09-26 19:39                   ` Stefan Beller
2018-09-26 19:49                   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-26 19:59                     ` Stefan Beller
2018-09-26 20:19                       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-26 20:51                         ` Jeff King
2018-09-26 21:22                         ` Stefan Beller
2018-09-26 20:44                   ` On shipping more of our technical docs as manpages Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-26 21:40                     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-26 23:21                     ` Stefan Beller
2018-09-27  8:58                       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-27  6:20                     ` Jeff King
2018-09-27  6:34                       ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-09-27  6:40                         ` Jeff King
2018-09-27 17:36                       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-27 18:25                         ` Jeff King
2018-09-27 21:27                         ` [PATCH] Documentation/CodingGuidelines: How to document new APIs Stefan Beller
2018-09-27 21:43                           ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-27 22:21                             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-27 23:27                           ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-09-28  1:11                             ` Jeff King [this message]
2018-09-28 16:50                               ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-28 17:30                                 ` [PATCH] strbuf.h: format according to coding guidelines Stefan Beller
2018-09-28 19:54                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-28 20:11                                     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-28 21:38                                       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-29  7:38                                       ` Jeff King
2018-09-28 21:42                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-28 21:54                                     ` Stefan Beller
2018-09-28 19:47                                 ` [PATCH] Documentation/CodingGuidelines: How to document new APIs Martin Ågren
2018-09-29  7:46                                 ` Jeff King
2018-09-28 17:14                               ` Stefan Beller
2018-09-29  7:41                                 ` Jeff King
2018-09-27  6:48                   ` [PATCH 1/8] sha1-array: provide oid_array_filter Jeff King
2018-09-21 22:35 ` [PATCH 2/8] submodule.c: fix indentation Stefan Beller
2018-09-21 22:35 ` [PATCH 3/8] submodule.c: sort changed_submodule_names before searching it Stefan Beller
2018-09-21 22:35 ` [PATCH 4/8] submodule: move global changed_submodule_names into fetch submodule struct Stefan Beller
2018-09-21 22:35 ` [PATCH 5/8] submodule.c: do not copy around submodule list Stefan Beller
2018-09-21 22:35 ` [PATCH 6/8] submodule: fetch in submodules git directory instead of in worktree Stefan Beller
2018-09-21 22:35 ` [PATCH 7/8] fetch: retry fetching submodules if needed objects were not fetched Stefan Beller
2018-09-21 22:35 ` [PATCH 8/8] builtin/fetch: check for submodule updates for non branch fetches Stefan Beller

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