From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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 16:13:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080821201307.GC27705@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080821173842.GB26920@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-21 20:14 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 [this message]
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
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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