Re: [PATCH 2/4] check-docs: update non-command documentation list

2012-08-08 Thread Philip Oakley
From: "Junio C Hamano" "Philip Oakley" writes: One issue I notice a few weeks ago is that `git help --all` does not list all of the available git help pages, rather it just limits itself to the available command pages. This means that new users can't discover those additional help pages in

Re: [PATCH 2/4] check-docs: update non-command documentation list

2012-08-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
"Philip Oakley" writes: > One issue I notice a few weeks ago is that `git help --all` does not > list all of the available git help pages, rather it just limits itself > to the available command pages. > > This means that new users can't discover those additional help pages > in any easy manner.

Re: [PATCH 2/4] check-docs: update non-command documentation list

2012-08-08 Thread Philip Oakley
- Original Message - From: "Jeff King" To: "Junio C Hamano" Cc: "Matthieu Moy" ; Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 9:54 PM Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] check-docs: update non-command documentation list On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 12:24:29PM -0700, Junio C Ham

Re: [PATCH 2/4] check-docs: update non-command documentation list

2012-08-08 Thread Jeff King
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 12:24:29PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King writes: > > > The check-docs target looks at Documentation/git*txt and > > complains if any entry does not have a matching command. > > Therefore we need to explicitly ignore any entries which are > > not meant to descri

Re: [PATCH 2/4] check-docs: update non-command documentation list

2012-08-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King writes: > The check-docs target looks at Documentation/git*txt and > complains if any entry does not have a matching command. > Therefore we need to explicitly ignore any entries which are > not meant to describe a command (like gitattributes.txt). > This list has grown stale over time,

[PATCH 2/4] check-docs: update non-command documentation list

2012-08-08 Thread Jeff King
The check-docs target looks at Documentation/git*txt and complains if any entry does not have a matching command. Therefore we need to explicitly ignore any entries which are not meant to describe a command (like gitattributes.txt). This list has grown stale over time, so let's bring it up to date.