[RFC] Concise vs comprehensive help - do we need both?

Sohail Somani sohail at worklogassistant.com
Sat Jan 31 08:24:55 GMT 2009


Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Can't this complex structure be simplified?  Well, remember that that
> was the reason for Info in the GNU Project, and that failed (cf
> Debian's "this man page was written for the Debian Project" man
> pages).  There's a reason for this complexity in the documentation: it
> reflects complexity in the application.  Today bazaar is a very
> complex application.  I see no reason why bazaar's complexity should
> not be reflected in the structure of its documentation.

If I may give the view of a total newb:

Please write http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ for Bazaar.

Or point me to it if it already exists :-)

After reading that one book, I was all set with Subversion. I cannot yet
find the equivalent for bzr.

Thanks!




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