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    git docs: add a category for file formats, protocols and interfaces · 844739ba
    Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason authored and Junio C Hamano's avatar Junio C Hamano committed
    Create a new "File formats, protocols and other developer interfaces"
    section in the main "git help git" manual page and start moving the
    documentation that now lives in "Documentation/technical/*.git" over
    to it. This complements the newly added and adjacent "Repository,
    command and file interfaces" section.
    
    This makes the technical documentation more accessible and
    discoverable. Before this we wouldn't install it by default, and had
    no ability to build man page versions of them. The links to them from
    our existing documentation link to the generated HTML version of these
    docs.
    
    So let's start moving those over, starting with just the
    "bundle-format.txt" documentation added in 7378ec90 (doc: describe
    Git bundle format, 2020-02-07). We'll now have a new
    gitformat-bundle(5) man page. Subsequent commits will move more git
    internal format documentation over.
    
    Unfortunately the syntax of the current Documentation/technical/*.txt
    is not th...
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