From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Suggestion: "man git clone" Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:14:41 -0700 Message-ID: <48ADCCB1.6040803@zytor.com> References: <48ACB29C.7000606@zytor.com> <48ACB5F4.3000905@sneakemail.com> <48AD99DF.5090802@zytor.com> <32541b130808211007xf295e40l567ecf785a8fca22@mail.gmail.com> <48ADA467.1030407@zytor.com> <20080821173842.GB26920@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20080821201307.GC27705@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Avery Pennarun , =?UTF-8?B?IlBldGVyIFZhbGRlbWFyIE0=?= =?UTF-8?B?w7hyY2ggKExpc3RzKSI=?= <4ux6as402@sneakemail.com>, flucifredi@acm.org, Git ML To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 21 22:16:16 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KWGZl-0001yf-IA for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:16:09 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754090AbYHUUPF (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:15:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754066AbYHUUPF (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:15:05 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:48777 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753784AbYHUUPE (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:15:04 -0400 Received: from mail.hos.anvin.org (c-98-210-181-100.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [98.210.181.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m7LKEiMx018833 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:14:44 -0700 Received: from tazenda.hos.anvin.org (tazenda.hos.anvin.org [172.27.0.16]) by mail.hos.anvin.org (8.14.2/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m7LKEigH028006; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:14:44 -0700 Received: from tazenda.hos.anvin.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tazenda.hos.anvin.org (8.14.2/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m7LKEfXW022234; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:14:42 -0700 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) In-Reply-To: <20080821201307.GC27705@coredump.intra.peff.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.3/8069/Thu Aug 21 10:36:55 2008 on terminus.zytor.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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