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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Dakota Hawkins <dakotahawkins@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>,
	Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	git-for-windows <git-for-windows@googlegroups.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Git for Windows documentation, was Re: [git-for-windows] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.9.3
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 13:42:25 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1608251339510.4924@virtualbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG0BQXmovWAjn8sE=CFGMXguRpEqU3xUbF03aSEN4OLxNc9oZg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Dakota,

On Wed, 24 Aug 2016, Dakota Hawkins wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 23 Aug 2016, Dakota Hawkins wrote:
> >
> >> I use GFW almost exclusively, but I pretty much always consult the
> >> upstream documentation anyway (because I find it easier).
> >
> > Oh... I thought that typing "git help git-commit" opening a nice HTML
> > page in your favorite browser was good enough.
> >
> > Do you have any suggestion how to improve the user experience?
> 
> Just a small one, and that's that I'd prefer the option to have help
> display in my terminal (that option might exist and I don't know how to
> turn it on). That would be very convenient for me.

Ah, okay... The reason why this is not that easy is: we ship with HTML
documentation (and skip `man` altogether, also to conserve space in the
already large installer: it is ~30MB, which might seem acceptable to you
until you are stuck in a country where the download is at 30-70 kB/s).

So I am afraid that the only solution in that case would be to install the
Git for Windows SDK (https://git-for-windows.github.io/#download-sdk, as
pointed out by Philip).

Ciao,
Johannes

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-08-25 11:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-13 10:14 [ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.9.3 Johannes Schindelin
2016-08-13 15:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-17 13:54   ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-08-17 15:29     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-18  8:37       ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-08-22 14:04         ` [git-for-windows] " Duy Nguyen
2016-08-23 13:54           ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-08-23 14:41             ` Michael J Gruber
2016-08-23 15:37               ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-08-23 16:05                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-08-23 19:25                   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-23 21:42                     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-24  1:04                       ` Dakota Hawkins
2016-08-24 15:41                         ` Git for Windows documentation, was " Johannes Schindelin
2016-08-24 16:06                           ` Dakota Hawkins
2016-08-24 23:28                             ` Philip Oakley
2016-08-25 11:42                             ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2016-08-24 15:39                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-08-24  5:09                   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-24 15:48                     ` core.autocrlf, was " Johannes Schindelin
2016-08-24 16:45                       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-25 11:54                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-08-25 12:43                           ` Torsten Bögershausen
2016-08-25 13:50                             ` Johannes Schindelin

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