[MERGE] Small doc improvements, mostly adding See Also references

Richard Wilbur richard.wilbur at gmail.com
Fri Aug 7 14:49:53 BST 2009


On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 21:15 -0400, Eric Siegerman wrote:
> >> +    are currently unknown and not ignored.
> >
> > [criticism that "unknown" implies "not ignored"; response
> > that the nuance is subtle, and should be elaborated]
> 
> How about:
>     are currently unknown -- that is, unversioned and not ignored.
> or, factoring out the negation:
>     are currently unknown -- that is, neither versioned nor ignored.
> 
> I'm six-of-one-half-dozen-of-the-other as to which of those is
> less confusing.
As both imply an action you could take to remove a file from "unknown"
status, "versioned" => 'bzr add' and "ignored" => 'bzr ignore', I prefer
the latter elaboration.

Richard
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