From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Suggestion: "man git clone" Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:31:04 -0700 Message-ID: <48BF5678.8080201@zytor.com> References: <48ACB29C.7000606@zytor.com> <48ADE2FF.4080704@acm.org> <48BF4662.9000305@acm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Git Mailing List To: Federico Lucifredi X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Sep 04 05:32:20 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 1Kb5Zy-0005Dv-77 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:32:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753563AbYIDDbM (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2008 23:31:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753552AbYIDDbM (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2008 23:31:12 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:57722 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753543AbYIDDbM (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2008 23:31:12 -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 m843V9Ai017700 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 3 Sep 2008 20:31:10 -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 m843V97e016357; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 20:31:09 -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 m843V48q007545; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 20:31:04 -0700 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) In-Reply-To: <48BF4662.9000305@acm.org> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.93.3, clamav-milter version 0.93.3 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: 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