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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-05-17 19:16:44 (GMT)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-05-17 19:16:44 (GMT)
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Merge branch 'dw/asciidoc-sources-are-dot-txt-files'
* dw/asciidoc-sources-are-dot-txt-files: CodingGuidelines: Documentation/*.txt are the sources
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@@ -237,8 +237,10 @@ For Python scripts:
Writing Documentation:
- Most (if not all) of the documentation pages are written in AsciiDoc
- and processed into HTML output and manpages.
+ Most (if not all) of the documentation pages are written in the
+ AsciiDoc format in *.txt files (e.g. Documentation/git.txt), and
+ processed into HTML and manpages (e.g. git.html and git.1 in the
+ same directory).
Every user-visible change should be reflected in the documentation.
The same general rule as for code applies -- imitate the existing