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[PATCH 2/2] Documentation: make git-sh-setup docs less scary

From: Thomas Rast <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:52:40
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

At least one IRC user was scared away by the introductory "This is not
a command the end user would want to run.  Ever." to the point of not
reading on.

Reword it in a more matter-of-fact way that does not intentionally try
to scare the user away.  Since 46bac90 (Do not install shell libraries
executable, 2010-01-31) it is not executable anyway, so the end user
would get

  $ git sh-setup
  fatal: cannot exec 'git-sh-setup': Permission denied

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <redacted>
---
 Documentation/git-sh-setup.txt |   11 ++++-------
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-sh-setup.txt b/Documentation/git-sh-setup.txt
index bbfefca..612fb50 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-sh-setup.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-sh-setup.txt
@@ -13,13 +13,10 @@ SYNOPSIS
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 
-This is not a command the end user would want to run.  Ever.
-This documentation is meant for people who are studying the
-Porcelain-ish scripts and/or are writing new ones.
-
-The 'git sh-setup' scriptlet is designed to be sourced (using
-`.`) by other shell scripts to set up some variables pointing at
-the normal git directories and a few helper shell functions.
+This command cannot be run by the end user.  Shell scripts can
+source it (using `.` as indicated above) to set up some variables
+pointing at the normal git directories and a few helper shell
+functions.
 
 Before sourcing it, your script should set up a few variables;
 `USAGE` (and `LONG_USAGE`, if any) is used to define message
-- 
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