About http://mercurial.selenic.com/

[Paul Boddie]

On 23/04/12 21:43, Stephen Morton wrote:
>> On Wed Apr 18 16:52:38 CDT 2012, Matt Mackall wrote:

[Truncated quick start]

>>
>> 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.

This kind of example is surely just to show what Mercurial commands look 
like and to reassure people with experience of other systems that they 
are familiar.

People like to see things "in action". For example, I tried for ages to 
get actual code onto the Python home page without much success, despite 
the appearance of the language being one of its fundamental properties.

>> 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 the issue on Windows 7, 64-bit for every one of these. I fullscreen
> the browsers and there would be plenty of room for the text.
>     * Firefox 11,
>     * IE 8,
>     * Chrome 18, and
>     * Opera 11.62.

It looks like the "row" class sets the overflow property to "hidden", 
and thus the text is just clipped beyond the right hand boundary. 
Arguably, the page should use more vertical space: setting a fixed width 
of 900 pixels on the whole page is probably not the way to go.

Paul