From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Federico Lucifredi <flucifredi@acm.org>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Suggestion: "man git clone"
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:31:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48BF5678.8080201@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48BF4662.9000305@acm.org>
Federico Lucifredi wrote:
> Hello HP, All,
> I somehow managed to forget this (age must be taking its toll), but
> there is a convention commonly used for man pages of Perl Modules, which
> can be reasonably usable for subcommands as well:
>
> man APR::Brigade
>
> will work just fine, with a file by the same name. This convention is in
> current use, and would map to
>
> man git::clone
>
> while :: is not as immediate in context as in Perl, it does do the job,
> and works regardless of pager.
>
That's just as bad as "man git-clone". Arguably worse.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-04 3:32 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
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 [this message]
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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