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From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: On shipping more of our technical docs as manpages
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 10:58:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874lebjp02.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kZOZL24Q=L-XkdrKRMjNg=dynQ+67qyD+iceg7GLru3yw@mail.gmail.com>


On Wed, Sep 26 2018, Stefan Beller wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 1:44 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
> <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > And if we were going to generate something external, would it make more
>> > sense to write in a structured format like doxygen? I am not a big fan
>> > of it myself, but at least from there you can generate a more richly
>> > interconnected set of documentation.
>>
>> It's useful to have a single authoritative source for all documentation
>> that's easy to search through.
>
> If that is the case I would propose to keep it all in header files and
> organize the headers.
>
>> That includes stuff like perl585delta(1) which we'd stick in
>> Documentation/RelNotes, and "Internals and C Language Interface". Most
>> of what we'd put in Documentation/technical/api-* & headers is in
>> perlapi(1).
>
> This seems cool, but was also a recent introduction?
> perl400delta seems to yield nothing for me (which may be because
> I do not have an old version of perl installed?)

Depends on what you think is "recent" I suppose. Perl 5.4 is the first
version where deltas in POD format started being maintained
consistently, that version was released in mid-1997. Perl 4 was released
in 1991, see "perldoc perlhist". So ~everything consistently in POD has
been the case for ~20 years.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-27  8:58 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 [this message]
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
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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