From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Couder Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] Documentation: complicate example of "man git-command" Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 01:39:17 +0200 Message-ID: <200807010139.17754.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano , Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy , Jon Loeliger , "J. Bruce Fields" To: Jonathan Nieder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 01 01:36:20 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 1KDSuw-00013u-PD for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:36:19 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754315AbYF3XfW convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:35:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754285AbYF3XfW (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:35:22 -0400 Received: from smtp1-g19.free.fr ([212.27.42.27]:33629 "EHLO smtp1-g19.free.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754177AbYF3XfV convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:35:21 -0400 Received: from smtp1-g19.free.fr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp1-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC4911AB2C9; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 01:35:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bureau.boubyland (gre92-7-82-243-130-161.fbx.proxad.net [82.243.130.161]) by smtp1-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 806581AB2B4; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 01:35:20 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Le mardi 1 juillet 2008, Jonathan Nieder a =E9crit : > The manual page for the command invoked as "git clone" is named > git-clone(1), and similarly for the rest of the git commands. > Make sure our first example of this in tutorials makes it clear > that it is the first two words of a command line that make up the > command's name (that is: for example, the effect of "git svn > dcommit" is described in git-svn(1)). > > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder > --- > If I didn't make this change, consistency would mean > saying "you can get documentation for a command such > as `git-diff` with `man git-diff`", which might not be > very enlightening. By the way, while at it, maybe we could talk about "git help " at=20 the same time. Thanks, Christian.