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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