About http://mercurial.selenic.com/
Roman Neuhauser
neuhauser at sigpipe.cz
Thu Apr 19 12:13:12 UTC 2012
# mpm at selenic.com / 2012-04-18 16:52:38 -0500:
> On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 23:02 +0200, Johan Holmberg wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > The page http://mercurial.selenic.com/ has a "Quick Start" column to
> > the right. But for as long as I can remember my browsers (Firefox,
> > Safari and Chrome) fail to show the full text of the example. The
> > first line show up as something like:
> >
> > $ hg clone http://selenic.com/re
> Well, from interacting with thousands of n00bs, I'm beginning to suspect
> the quickstart does more harm than good. Having people commit and merge
> without any mental model of the underlying DAG seems to cause lots of
> trouble.
>
> Seems to work for me on Firefox on Linux, Chrome exhibits the cut-off.
> This is apparently due to a disagreement on what font / point size to
> use.
I see it cut off (ending with "/re") in Firefox-10.0.2 on OpenSUSE-12.1.
--
roman
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