From: "Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, jrnieder@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Unify argument and option notation in the docs
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 22:15:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739sgtp8i.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v1v80wjuw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:43:51 -0700")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> I had to fix up the whitespace damage in the rerolled 2/6 but otherwise
> looked good.
Yeah, sorry for that. Obviously the tabs got replaced by spaces when I
copy-pasted the hunk and I didn't notice.
> Thanks, both. It might make sense to outline the rules applied somewhere in
> CodingGuidelines to help people who add to our documents. Something along
> the lines of...
>
> - A placeholder is spelled inside angle brackets, e.g. <file>, <object>.
>
> - Choosing one from many is written with possible choices separated with
> a vertical bar and the whole thing enclosed in parentheses, e.g.
> answer=(yes|no|true|false)
>
> - Repetition of zero or more times of X is spelled as [(X)...], e.g.
> [(-p <parent>)...]
:-) I was actually considering just that, so I'm glad you mention it.
I can try to compile an initial version of such a document, based on the
commit message of the original single-patch version
(<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/158467>) and
including some more cases/examples.
Where do you think would be the most appropriate place for it?
Just add a section to CodingGuidelines, or a separate
Documentation/WritingGuidelines or something?
Štěpán
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-08 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-08 0:52 [PATCH/RFC] Unify argument and option notation in the docs Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 7:43 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-08 11:13 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 17:31 ` [PATCH 0/6] " Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 17:44 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-08 19:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-08 20:15 ` Štěpán Němec [this message]
2010-10-21 22:21 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-24 15:51 ` [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: Add a section on writing documentation Štěpán Němec
2010-10-29 2:56 ` Mark Lodato
2010-10-29 11:54 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-10-29 17:14 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-11-01 17:00 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-11-04 17:12 ` [PATCH v2] " Štěpán Němec
2010-11-04 17:18 ` [PATCH] diff,difftool: Don't use the {0,2} notation in usage strings Štěpán Němec
2010-11-04 17:22 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-11-04 17:49 ` Jeff King
2010-11-04 18:02 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-11-04 18:13 ` Jeff King
2010-11-04 18:38 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-11-04 18:55 ` Jeff King
2010-11-04 20:26 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-11-04 20:43 ` Jeff King
2010-11-04 21:17 ` [PATCH] docs: clarify git diff modes of operation Jeff King
2010-11-04 21:50 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-11-05 1:57 ` Mark Lodato
2010-11-04 21:51 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-11-04 21:30 ` [PATCH] diff,difftool: Don't use the {0,2} notation in usage strings Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 17:31 ` [PATCH 1/6] Use angles for placeholders consistently Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 17:31 ` [PATCH 2/6] Fix odd markup in --diff-filter documentation Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 17:39 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-08 17:57 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 18:03 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-08 18:40 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 18:53 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-08 17:31 ` [PATCH 3/6] Use parentheses and `...' where appropriate Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 17:31 ` [PATCH 4/6] Remove stray quotes in --pretty and --format documentation Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 17:31 ` [PATCH 5/6] Put a space between `<' and argument in pack-objects usage string Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 17:31 ` [PATCH 6/6] Fix {update,checkout}-index usage strings Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 16:45 ` [PATCH 0/2] pack-objects: use ALLOC_GROW in place of manual growth Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-08 16:46 ` [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: No argument of ALLOC_GROW should have side-effects Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-08 16:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] pack-objects: use ALLOC_GROW Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-08 17:02 ` [PATCH 3/2] Allow side-effects in second argument to ALLOC_GROW Jonathan Nieder
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