From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com>,
"\"Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)\"" <4ux6as402@sneakemail.com>,
flucifredi@acm.org, "Git ML" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Suggestion: "man git clone"
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:14:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48ADCCB1.6040803@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080821201307.GC27705@coredump.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 01:38:42PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>
>> There is some configuration magic about what is a section. Try
>>
>> perl -pi -e 's/^SECTION.*/$& git/' /etc/manpath.config
>>
>> That seems to convince my man to look in .../mangit, but I'm having
>> trouble actually getting it to find a page and I don't have time to
>> investigate further now.
>
> Ah, OK. My problem was that the pages actually need to be named "am.git",
> etc. But with 'git' in the section field, "man git am" does work.
> Unfortunately, it seems to break "man git". :(
>
> -Peff
Yeah, that pretty much makes it not a general solution.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-21 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-21 0:11 Suggestion: "man git clone" H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-21 0:25 ` "Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)"
2008-08-21 16:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-21 17:07 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-08-21 17:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-21 17:38 ` Jeff King
2008-08-21 20:13 ` Jeff King
2008-08-21 20:14 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-08-21 20:18 ` Jeff King
2008-08-21 17:52 ` Bert Wesarg
2008-08-22 11:37 ` A Large Angry SCM
2008-08-21 21:49 ` Federico Lucifredi
2008-08-21 23:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-22 0:07 ` Federico Lucifredi
2008-08-22 0:40 ` Jeff King
2008-08-22 0:42 ` Jeff King
2008-08-22 1:15 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-08-22 1:21 ` Jeff King
2008-08-22 1:21 ` Federico Lucifredi
2008-08-22 1:19 ` Federico Lucifredi
2009-06-28 2:34 ` Colin Watson
2009-07-06 2:48 ` Federico Lucifredi
2009-07-06 4:11 ` Federico Lucifredi
2008-09-04 2:22 ` Federico Lucifredi
2008-09-04 3:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-22 11:02 ` Michael J Gruber
2008-08-22 15:03 ` Derek Fawcus
2008-08-22 15:53 ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-08-25 12:38 ` Matthieu Moy
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