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On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 03:33:03PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> The difference is that news only communicates what is "news." Unless |
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> the manual contains a revision history it contains everything you |
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> already know, perhaps with a gem buried in there somewhere. |
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> This is the same reason why when something is wrong with Chromium you |
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> are supposed to post a 5-line patch to the bug and not a 300MB tarball |
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> with the patch applied, though at least in that case modern tools |
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> actually make finding the change fairly easy. |
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Hmm, are the manuals versioned with a public interface (git clone |
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…/handbook.git)? That would make finding new gems in the manual much |
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easier. |
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