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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rename {git- => git}remote-helpers.txt
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:04:55 -0800
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Jeff King wrote:

> Maybe it is just me, but the fact that accessing the manpage is now:
>
>   man gitremote-helpers
>
> feels weird to me. I know it technically follows our syntactic rules,
> but having the lack of dash be significant between "git" and "remote",
> but then having a dash later makes it hard on the eyes.

Yes.  I have thought for years that it should be git-remote-helpers,
that "git help" should be tweaked to look for that, and that the
existing gitrepository-layout and friends should be replaced with
redirects.

I didn't say anything (except a random comment once on #git) because I
can't promise to have time soon to work on it.  Might try anyway.

Thanks,
Jonathan