Re: Advice on edits to git-rebase man page

2015-02-23 Thread Matthew Brett
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Matthew Brett wrote: > On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Matthieu Moy writes: >> >>> NAME >>>git-rebase - Forward-port local commits to the updated upstream head >>> >>> => Quite technical already. >> >> Very much true, and I wo

Re: Advice on edits to git-rebase man page

2015-02-18 Thread Matthew Brett
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Matthieu Moy writes: > >> NAME >>git-rebase - Forward-port local commits to the updated upstream head >> >> => Quite technical already. > > Very much true, and I would say the description is "technically > correct" in the sense th

Re: Advice on edits to git-rebase man page

2015-02-05 Thread Junio C Hamano
Matthieu Moy writes: > Junio C Hamano writes: > >> Perhaps something like this instead? >> >> git-rebase - Rebuild a branch on top of a different commit > > I would say "Replay history on top of a different commit" instead. > "Rebuild" may be misleading (it's not "build" as in "compile & lin

Re: Advice on edits to git-rebase man page

2015-02-05 Thread Matthieu Moy
Junio C Hamano writes: > Perhaps something like this instead? > > git-rebase - Rebuild a branch on top of a different commit I would say "Replay history on top of a different commit" instead. "Rebuild" may be misleading (it's not "build" as in "compile & link"), and the rebased history does

Re: Advice on edits to git-rebase man page

2015-02-05 Thread Junio C Hamano
Matthieu Moy writes: > NAME >git-rebase - Forward-port local commits to the updated upstream head > > => Quite technical already. Very much true, and I would say the description is "technically correct" in the sense that "it is not wrong per-se". There are a few points that this fails

Re: Advice on edits to git-rebase man page

2015-02-05 Thread Matthieu Moy
Matthew Brett writes: > Obviously my page as it is now is very different in tone from the > git-rebase page, but I think there are some aspects that could be > fruitfully merged. Would you be interested in patches of this sort, > or does the page seem too far from the intention of the man page?

Advice on edits to git-rebase man page

2015-02-04 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, Sorry for the rather open-ended email, but I am interested to whether you would be interested in patches for git-rebase man page, based on a tutorial page I wrote some ago: http://matthew-brett.github.io/pydagogue/rebase_without_tears.html The reason I ask, is because I have found the git-re