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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>,
	"git\@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: An interesting opinion on DVCS/git
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 15:24:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqwq2x8y0m.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJo=hJuKL3akaG3Xh8mH5iij_dAdMkBW8fQgvreOsUHV517gpw@mail.gmail.com> (Shawn Pearce's message of "Tue, 3 Mar 2015 14:49:43 -0800")

Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> We have heard this sort of feedback for years. But we have been unable
> to adequately write our own documentation or clean up our man pages to
> be useful to the average person who doesn't know why the --no-frobbing
> option doesn't disable the --frobinator option to the
> --frobbing-subcommand of git frob.  :(

IIU/RC, GSoC is not only about coding.  Perhaps doing a proper
technical editing of the manual pages could be a summer project, to
which GitHub or somebody more skilled than us developers can supply
mentorship?

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-03 23:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <54F2CD12.8050609@gmail.com>
2015-03-02  3:29 ` Fwd: An interesting opinion on DVCS/git Stefan Beller
2015-03-03 22:49   ` Shawn Pearce
2015-03-03 23:24     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-03-03 23:55     ` Randall S. Becker
2015-03-04  0:53     ` David Lang
2015-03-04 15:25       ` Michael J Gruber
2015-03-06  3:25         ` Sitaram Chamarty
2015-03-09 14:47   ` Philip Oakley

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