(Dropping Colin again)
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#926656: git-debrebase docs are intimidating"):
> On Sat 20 Jul 2019 at 11:50PM +01, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > How about this ?
>
> I build the manpage with this version, and I find it readable. Nice
> work.
At last! Gre
Hello,
On Sat 20 Jul 2019 at 11:50PM +01, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#926656: git-debrebase docs are intimidating"):
>> An alternative which would satisfy these concerns and hopefully yours
>> too would be this:
>
> In your version I find it dif
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#926656: git-debrebase docs are intimidating"):
> An alternative which would satisfy these concerns and hopefully yours
> too would be this:
In your version I find it difficult to separate commands out from the
labels. Which is precisely your problem
Hello,
On Sat 20 Jul 2019 at 07:27PM +01, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Hmm. IMO:
>
> - Your approach uses 3 times as much vertical space. The whole QR
> runeset doesn't now appear in the first page in a 25 line terminal.
>
> - It leads with prose, not the runes. But the runes are supposed
> to be
Either of these approaches would have been enough to make things less
intimidating to me.
Hi, Colin. Sorry to bring you into this unexpectedly. I'm hoping you
might have time to have an opinion on the git-debrebase manpage.
We're proposing to add a QUICK REFERENCE section very near the top,
and are debating what it should be like.
Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#926656
Hello,
On Sat 20 Jul 2019 at 05:34PM +01, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Hi. Thanks for this. I'm not entirely convinced. It seems rather,
> err, flabby and discursive. It is intimidating in its own way, "do I
> need to read all of this for the quick reference" ?
>
> A quick reference does not need to
Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#926656: git-debrebase docs are intimidating"):
> On Mon 08 Apr 2019 at 03:43PM +01, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Package: git-debrebase
> > Version: 8.4
> >
> > Sam Hartman wrote the following me in private email. It is a apposite
>
control: tag -1 +patch
Hello,
On Mon 08 Apr 2019 at 03:43PM +01, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Package: git-debrebase
> Version: 8.4
>
> Sam Hartman wrote the following me in private email. It is a apposite
> (and sadly hilarious) critique of the documentation. I am filing it
> here as a bug, with perm
Hello,
On Mon 08 Apr 2019 at 10:33PM -04, Sam Hartman wrote:
> I don't know.
> As I said in my mail I'm not even sure there's a problem here.
>
> Let me give a bit of background here.
> Ian and I had what I thought was a really exciting call about git and
> source packages and stuff.
>
> It sound
I don't know.
As I said in my mail I'm not even sure there's a problem here.
Let me give a bit of background here.
Ian and I had what I thought was a really exciting call about git and
source packages and stuff.
It sounded like Ian hopes we'll some day get rid of patches-unapplied
data models fro
Hello,
On Mon 08 Apr 2019 at 03:43PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> From: Sam Hartman
Thank you for your continued interest in dgit and gdr, Sam!
> To: Ian Jackson Subject: Re: git
> debrebase is cool Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2019 13:01:57 -0400
>
>> "Ian" == Ian Jackson writes:
> Ian> Did you
Package: git-debrebase
Version: 8.4
Sam Hartman wrote the following me in private email. It is a apposite
(and sadly hilarious) critique of the documentation. I am filing it
here as a bug, with permission.
Ian.
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From: Sam Hartman
To: Ian Jackson
Subject: Re: git debrebase is cool
Date:
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