[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Problems editing help files

2016-04-09 Thread ptoye
Thanks Olivier, I'm wondering if the problem is that I used Git-GUI to do the initial clone and add/commit rather than the console. And Git-GUI doesn't tell you exactly what it's doing. One point - Git is installed in my Program Files directory (the default), which Windows protects from

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Problems editing help files

2016-04-08 Thread Olivier Hallot
Hello Peter some remarks 1) git status: Strange... the modified file should have the full path listed modified: path/to/file/filename.xhp 2) git commit -m "3rd party" You must give the name of the file you modified for commit. That is git commit -m "3rd party" file1 file2 file3... 3) git add

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Problems editing help files

2016-04-08 Thread ptoye
Thanks Olivier. I don't have time now to do an interactive chat. Possibly next week. I'm sure that Git is great, but as with all such tools it has to do a lot of things so it gets complicated fairly quickly. As an ex-software writer I sympathise with the designer. But here's a quick excerpt of a