From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Cc: Federico Lucifredi <flucifredi@acm.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Suggestion: "man git clone"
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:21:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080822012112.GA31615@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080822011515.GY23800@genesis.frugalware.org>
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 03:15:15AM +0200, Miklos Vajna wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 08:40:52PM -0400, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > I've never looked at man code before, but there seem to be at least two
> > man packages for Linux. My boxes have man-db 2.5.2.
>
> Obviously that's not the one Federico maintains. ;-)
>
> See http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/, it's at 1.6f.
Right. What I meant was two-fold:
1. "I am not going to take your patch challenge, because I don't even
seem to be running your man pager."
2. It has been noted in this thread that this will only affect Linux.
But it is even worse; it will only affect some distributions. So
people need to get several implementations to agree.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-22 1:22 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 [this message]
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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