Re: [PATCH] Some documentation...

2005-04-20 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, David Greaves wrote: > > So maybe it's left as documented behaviour and higher level tools must > manage the data they feed to it... That was the plan. I agree that "find . -type f | xargs update-cache --add --" in _theory_ is a nice thing to do. But in practice, you want

Re: [PATCH] Some documentation...

2005-04-20 Thread David Greaves
C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, David Greaves wrote: In doing this I noticed a couple of points: * update-cache won't accept ./file or fred/./file The comment in update-cache.c reads: /* * We fundamentally don't like some paths: we don't want * dot or dot-dot anywhere, and in fact,

Re: [PATCH] Some documentation...

2005-04-20 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, David Greaves wrote: In doing this I noticed a couple of points: * update-cache won't accept ./file or fred/./file The comment in update-cache.c reads: /* * We fundamentally don't like some paths: we don't want * dot or dot-dot anywhere, and in fact, we don't even want * any

[PATCH] Some documentation...

2005-04-20 Thread David Greaves
Hi I'm starting to write some docs... Comments... even "yep, looks OK, carry on" :) I plan on putting the 'git command' ones into the 'git help ...' structure once Petr accepts it. I guess the low level ones go into a README.reference until they stabilise and become man pages... In doing this I