On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 05:17:31PM +0100, Karin Lagesen wrote: > On 03/06/2015 04:14 PM, Erik Bray wrote: > > I can give you some anecdata right now, that as a somewhat > > experienced git user at this point, I can scarcely determine those > > from the real thing. The silly option switches I think give it a > > way a bit (I got "--terrorize-subtree" which doesn't make sense, > > because terrorizing is what subtrees do to *users*). But my eyes > > glaze over the main text about the same rate it does for the > > actual man pages. > > +1 from me here too. If not for the disclaimer, I would certainly > have had to spend a bit of time to figure out that it was a spoof.
In their defense, the Git docs are open source and written mostly by volunteers (like our lessons). I'm sure they'd appreciate patches clearing up anything that strikes you as confusing, but balancing clarity, correctness, completeness, and backwards compatibility can be hard. Cheers, Trevor -- This email may be signed or encrypted with GnuPG (http://www.gnupg.org). For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
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