From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Derek Fawcus Subject: Re: Suggestion: "man git clone" Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:03:53 +0100 Message-ID: <20080822150353.GC13490@cisco.com> References: <48ACB29C.7000606@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 22 17:07:56 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 1KWYE4-0007B1-RE for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:06:57 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751530AbYHVPFw (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:05:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751519AbYHVPFw (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:05:52 -0400 Received: from ams-iport-1.cisco.com ([144.254.224.140]:16569 "EHLO ams-iport-1.cisco.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751508AbYHVPFw (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:05:52 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.32,252,1217808000"; d="scan'208";a="17964769" Received: from ams-dkim-2.cisco.com ([144.254.224.139]) by ams-iport-1.cisco.com with ESMTP; 22 Aug 2008 15:05:50 +0000 Received: from ams-core-1.cisco.com (ams-core-1.cisco.com [144.254.224.150]) by ams-dkim-2.cisco.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id m7MF5oYK003686 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:05:50 +0200 Received: from edi-view2.cisco.com (edi-view2.cisco.com [64.103.71.156]) by ams-core-1.cisco.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m7MF5oV8011036 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:05:50 GMT Received: from dfawcus-laptop (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by edi-view2.cisco.com (8.11.2/CISCO.WS.1.2) with ESMTP id m7MF5nX01237 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:05:49 +0100 (BST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; l=668; t=1219417550; x=1220281550; c=relaxed/simple; s=amsdkim2001; h=Content-Type:From:Subject:Content-Transfer-Encoding:MIME-Version; d=cisco.com; i=dfawcus@cisco.com; z=From:=20Derek=20Fawcus=20 |Subject:=20Re=3A=20Suggestion=3A=20=22man=20git=20clone=22 |Sender:=20; bh=eXuA2OgWEqHDencD+zBzAKtbyQAJYd5dCtmS4/VDIx0=; b=incvwwuHJJmXNLUVmQ9AtaMO2PjoXBe35K/1U7fb92mlqZ70eD3jsmmgD3 i0tMu1a39CQ8MGm0GhGGguFb+BFO0VZtWBdz1KzFLXAmQH4xF9VYE0rqy2H/ CA5cpDQQaE; Authentication-Results: ams-dkim-2; header.From=dfawcus@cisco.com; dkim=pass ( sig from cisco.com/amsdkim2001 verified; ); Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 01:02:57PM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote: > I've heard about some other SCMs which have only "scm help bla", so this > suggestion would be in-line with common usage. [Not that git would have > to learn from other SCM's ;) ] Clearcase - commands such as 'cleartool describe', man page in ct+describe.1 Has 'cleartool help describe' (and 'cleartool describe -help') which gives a usage summary, and 'cleartool man describe' (or 'man ct+describe') for the man page. So basically the same solution, but a slightly different choice/use for keywords. (and if one has an alias 'ct=cleartool', it seems to make more sense). DF