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| author | Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> | 2022-08-04 18:28:33 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2022-08-04 14:12:23 -0700 |
| commit | d976c5100fb5f55f648d8b400bcbda1116b82dec (patch) | |
| tree | ee65ead55c91dbbd75b44b52c9cf3ce0a6dce9af /Documentation/git-help.txt | |
| parent | dba1e5392f431e57d6a8daacf879a255b49d57fb (diff) | |
| download | git-d976c5100fb5f55f648d8b400bcbda1116b82dec.tar.gz | |
git docs: add a category for user-facing file, repo and command UX
Create a new "Repository, command and file interfaces" section in the
main "git help git" manual page. Move things that belong under this
new criteria from the generic "Guides" section.
The "Guides" section was added in f442f28a81b (git.txt: add list of
guides, 2020-08-05). It makes sense to have e.g. "giteveryday(7)" and
"gitfaq(7)" listed under "Guides".
But placing e.g. "gitignore(5)" in it is stretching the meaning of
what a "guide" is, ideally that section should list things similar to
"giteveryday(7)" and "gitcore-tutorial(7)".
An alternate name that was considered for this new section was "User
formats", for consistency with the nomenclature used for man section 5
in general. My man(1) lists it as "File formats and conventions,
e.g. /etc/passwd".
So calling this "git help --formats" or "git help --user-formats"
would make sense for e.g. gitignore(5), but would be stretching it
somewhat for githooks(5), and would seem really suspect for the likes
of gitcli(7).
Let's instead pick a name that's closer to the generic term "User
interface", which is really what this documentation discusses: General
user-interface documentation that doesn't obviously belong elsewhere.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-help.txt b/Documentation/git-help.txt index bead763fd2..4eb03bd6c3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-help.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-help.txt @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS 'git help' [[-i|--info] [-m|--man] [-w|--web]] [<command>|<doc>] 'git help' [-g|--guides] 'git help' [-c|--config] +'git help' [--user-interfaces] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -69,6 +70,19 @@ OPTIONS --guides:: Prints a list of the Git concept guides on the standard output. +--user-interfaces:: + Prints a list of the repository, command and file interfaces + documentation on the standard output. ++ +In-repository file interfaces such as `.git/info/exclude` are +documented here (see linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5]), as well as +in-tree configuration such as `.mailmap` (see linkgit:gitmailmap[5]). ++ +This section of the documentation also covers general or widespread +user-interface conventions (e.g. linkgit:gitcli[7]), and +pseudo-configuration such as the file-based `.git/hooks/*` interface +described in linkgit:githooks[5]. + -i:: --info:: Display manual page for the command in the 'info' format. The |