Re: Making git as easy as CVS, for handling merge conflicts

[Eli Zaretskii]

On November 12, 2019 3:18:10 AM GMT, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > > I looked at the doc strings of ediff-mode and ediff.  They give a
> few
> > > secondary details but they don't even start to answer the
> questions,
> > > "What is this good for?  What does it do?"  So I can't tell
> whether it
>   > > would make three windows.
> 
> > > Regardless of my git issues, those doc strings ought to be
> improved.
>   > > Would someone like to do it?
> 
> > Ediff has multiple entry points and explaining what Ediff does and
> its
> > basic concepts on each of those commands would be quite redundant,
> IMHO.
> 
> With a little imagination, it is surely possible to solve the problem
> without much repetition.  Would someone like to try?

Ediff has its own Info manual.  Isn't that enough to document the feature?