Re: [PATCH/RFC v2] Documentation: flesh out “git pull” description

Thomas Rast [off-list ref] writes:

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:

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Junio: ideally for this to work, git-pull.html would need to get the
same special treatment as git.html gets.  Does that seem doable?  Is
Meta/dodoc.sh still the script to do it?

I am a bit reluctant to see stalenotes[] being abused; that ugly hack is
in effect _only_ while k.org documentation is being built to hang the "You
are reading the latest dev version, newer than anything released" sign on
the front door.

People with older git have documentation shipped with their versions, no?

The problem is that google invariably turns up the 'master' docs at
k.org when you look for a git commmand (and that we point people to
them all the time on #git).  Hence I suggested not outright removing
this safety warning from the docs that even people running 1.5.x will
read.

I think the longer "In git 1.7.0 or later" with "Warning: in olden days"
can appear in everybody's version without causing any harm.  That way, it
is shown even to somebody who came to docs/v1.7.3/git-pull.html at k.org
from sideways.