Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: BK, deltas, snapshots and fate of -pre... | Date | Sun, 21 Apr 2002 23:05:11 +0200 |
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On Monday 22 April 2002 22:53, Doug Ledford wrote: > On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 10:29:19PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > On Monday 22 April 2002 21:53, Doug Ledford wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 07:34:49PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > > How about a URL instead? Any objection? > > > > > > Yes. Why should I have to cut and paste (assuming I'm in X) or > > > write down > > > > What??? What kind of system are you running? Err... redhat supports > > cut and paste I thought. <-- funnny. > > Depends on what you use to read the file containing the URL. Obviously, > if I'm Al Viro I'm on a text console and wouldn't use a mouse if you > cemented it in my hand, so cut and paste isn't an option.
Would everybody with no mouse on their system please stand up, and leave the room.
Seriously, you're trolling.
> > > and transpose some URL from a file that used to contain > > > the exact instructions I need in order to get those instructions now > > > > Bogus. You'd have to do the same to edit/list the file. > > No, I wouldn't. In one case I would do "less <filename>" and in the other > case I would do "less <filename>", ohh damn, it's only a pointer to the > real docs, switch to X or install lynx on my system, go to URL. It's a > matter of having the appropriate documentation at hand vs. having to > retrieve it.
lynx <url>
What's the difference?
> I put my docs on my web site because that's what I owned/controlled and it > was relevant to people already coming to my web site. That in no way > indicates that your position is correct, especially since you ignored to > truly relevant item in my email:
I'm actually trying to do a little work as well as handle all the input from the Bitkeeper moonies, thankyou.
Err, did I say moonies, sorry I meant advocates, err, apologists, umm. Sorry, I just meant I've been getting a lot of email lately, some of it is too long to read every word. Unless you are a spectacularly good writer, expect some of your deathless prose to drop through the cracks.
> > > information so that the whole picture, from start to finish, was all > > > described in one easy to access place. > > One place for relevant information, from start to finish.
Right. bitkeeper.com, any argument?
> > You haven't read the thread closely, this was described before. There are > > one documentation file and three scripts. The documentation file is about > > half general description of Bitkeeper - which is quite unabashedly > > promotional and the author does describe it as an adverisement - and half > > how to use for submitting kernel patches. > > Now, now Daniel, let's not put words into people's mouths. Jeff has said > he does like BitKeeper, and he said he could *see how you think his > description is an advertisement* but that he *didn't write it as an > advertisement*.
He agreed it was an advertisement.
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