Re: What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2014, #03; Fri, 14)

[Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>]

Philip Oakley wrote:
>> * po/everyday-doc (2014-01-27) 1 commit
>> - Make 'git help everyday' work
>>
>> This may make the said command to emit something, but the source is
>> not meant to be formatted into a manual pages to begin with, and
>> also its contents are a bit stale.  It may be a good first step in
>> the right direction, but needs more work to at least get the
>> mark-up right before public consumption.
>
> I'm not sure what elements you feel need adjustment. At the moment the
> markup formats quite reasonably to my eyes, both as an HTML page and as a
> man page.

I sent you a small patch fixing some minor markup issues.

> That said, the (lack of) introduction could do with a paragraph to introduce
> the "guide". I have something in draft..
>
> I had a thought that it may be worth a slight rearrangement to add a section
> covering the setting up of one's remotes, depending whether it was forked,
> corporate, or independent, but the lack of resolution on the next
> {publish/push} topic makes such a re-write awkward at this stage. (Ram cc'd)

Before attempting to introduce remote.pushdefault and triangular
workflows, I'd first fix the main issue: stale content. I'm not sure
who uses git show-branch or mailx anymore, for instance.