From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>,
Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rename {git- => git}remote-helpers.txt
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 00:03:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130201050343.GA29973@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130131230455.GN27340@google.com>
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 03:04:55PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 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.
What was the original rationale for the "gitfoo" form? Was it just to
visually distinguish command manpages from non-command manpages? I can't
remember the origins now. It does seem like it is causing more
hassle than it is worth, but maybe there is something I am forgetting.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-01 5:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-30 20:11 git-remote-helpers.txt: should it be gitremote-helpers.txt? John Keeping
2013-01-30 20:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-31 20:08 ` [PATCH] gitremote-helpers.txt: rename from git-remote-helpers.txt John Keeping
2013-01-31 20:18 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-01-31 20:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-31 21:59 ` [PATCH] Rename {git- => git}remote-helpers.txt John Keeping
2013-01-31 22:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-31 22:28 ` John Keeping
2013-01-31 22:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-31 22:56 ` John Keeping
2013-01-31 23:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-31 22:33 ` Jeff King
2013-01-31 22:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-31 23:04 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-31 23:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-31 23:13 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-02-01 5:03 ` Jeff King [this message]
2013-02-01 5:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-01 7:33 ` Jeff King
2013-02-01 8:25 ` Jeff King
2013-02-01 8:26 ` [PATCH 1/2] Documentation/Makefile: clean up MAN*_TXT lists Jeff King
2013-02-01 19:20 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-02-01 19:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-01 19:38 ` Jeff King
2013-02-01 19:41 ` Jeff King
2013-02-01 8:27 ` [PATCH 2/2] docs: convert "concept" manpages to git-* Jeff King
2013-02-01 19:25 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-02-01 18:52 ` [PATCH] Rename {git- => git}remote-helpers.txt Junio C Hamano
2013-02-01 19:00 ` Jeff King
2013-02-01 22:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-31 22:28 ` [PATCH] gitremote-helpers.txt: rename from git-remote-helpers.txt Tomas Carnecky
2013-01-31 22:45 ` Junio C Hamano
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