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