From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.1 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 566B11FD99 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2016 11:43:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753920AbcHYLnI (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Aug 2016 07:43:08 -0400 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.19]:51779 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753421AbcHYLnH (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Aug 2016 07:43:07 -0400 Received: from virtualbox ([37.24.141.250]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx001) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LlUZz-1b2BKH3UwR-00bKvO; Thu, 25 Aug 2016 13:42:43 +0200 Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 13:42:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Johannes Schindelin X-X-Sender: virtualbox@virtualbox To: Dakota Hawkins cc: Junio C Hamano , Michael J Gruber , Duy Nguyen , git-for-windows , Git Mailing List Subject: Re: Git for Windows documentation, was Re: [git-for-windows] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.9.3 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <2a6d2230-90ce-0f54-c7ae-a5aa595a2f73@drmicha.warpmail.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:34uvO5qzGqNYm8VQTz/wWWQCYkiUrLVOVlUbokvlADCheCx3EfG 1uJSZpSirymZc0GMnTIDfCsEsvnNNsmEqsfKYjNWvqNt1i0D1bOg7gPoBHQE5Fe6Csm4QH+ PhSogZaFR/hFXDkL+RE0gQjQdvS9uMila9y6frLthfTJUdK5HZp1wIrlxkg5/YB2NX2h4FY nSx7QQKZVW8qvG/2Wpm3w== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:jmHGbCJ5jag=:4F06ct8BIRX6ZMZ1J5wbQH SXM/wLJ+oSfbnw0WVb80GF9/Klxp2JRPERfxVbXP7utrKEhbT4b/G4jqTmN/tXAjww2FR42Cy nuBsS1lGTKrO6DRaKbjjINVI8TT+wdp0Ukr4dWcOgDRSg8EW688iBafmJetBHw/BxjKFSRJo4 Xym401n8rCoKq8sJzWWmrF6jl89wqOjeNaL86q6s7GhWCxPLPLRHlwg6d35SmhA1AjGJYE68p 1PNXXSzBNaCB0PspEgzbWRozz0CLT/M6kFz0tbmOQGi4PXcnUixbzl0CLJhQXLdWz2uNdQpKt jIJ8vcipauLqPYmp83UKWxZZmQhXq3QJX48EsS3kxsD668pRp9fRBqRW2GTfcPZcGfKf0zAs0 JmgUAMl4ezAWw5wjrdLqSGRoDi8+g5zSvzeF6ka05C/+vHOqQqybsM1blD2g1Lf9xzrAj4ibM XnM8GY+zr/gUsjO68KL2E/PuA6t/9iCuEykmXpSqqYtG61ukN5PFCPGUNM2BqJp1pmOOWi0nn /royvaiMoilhbFuKPv3pAngcDV/8/27rYTznxpUFXb1zAWhaqN8UOamRtJq95MJi7ypwZlcDS oJiaBe2JDQJhwhHuXtoWKFcQxR/w9sKNmddTXlfdcBlRJRtJAtusHjvTq/2Cirq2CpIlWKr+D OXLoJfXqPE9iV6O7c8d9Ves63gpWQyNs9IbvrBGuEp3E3+SCGRsrznPNGrtIyaZBq+hmRbWVs y3nrJgaIhUtbGzC5P8OmUb1T5zZuhxjhQTzxoFzB3w/Tu3lipPyIbJLHoi5qrOM4FDA74IuOv wPwlpmv Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Hi Dakota, On Wed, 24 Aug 2016, Dakota Hawkins wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Johannes Schindelin > 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