Wiki work

Martin Geisler mg at aragost.com
Mon Oct 18 06:44:45 CDT 2010


Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david at logilab.fr> writes:

> 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.

Such as this page (the HTML version of the man page):

  http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hg.1.html#archive

It has actually been there for a very long time.

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