Wiki work

Pierre-Yves David pierre-yves.david at logilab.fr
Mon Oct 18 03:29:50 CDT 2010


On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 04:21:45PM -0500, Matt Schulte wrote:
> Since we are talking about making the wiki better, I want to point
> something out by way of an exercise.
> 
> Let's say that you didn't know anything about the hg archive command.
> Go to google and try to find a way to make a zip file in mercurial.
> It isn't anywhere near the top.
> 
> Now go to the wiki and try to find something using the search box.
> Not a lot comes up if you search for zip or gz.
> 
> Now try to actually find the hg archive command using the wiki.  Not
> exactly a lot of information out there, which would explain why it
> doesn't readily show up in google.
> 
> A colleague pointed this out and told me about how long he looked
> before he actually found the archive command.

If the online documentation now integrate in hgweb is propertly indexed, this
shoul fix the issue. Maybe we can publish a static version of this documention
on mercurial website too.

--
Pierre-Yves
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