Re: Suggestion: "man git clone"

["Bert Wesarg" <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 19:22, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> Avery Pennarun wrote:
>>
>> [and I put him back...]
>>
>> Unfortunately what we don't have is a proposal that would work better.
>>  Also, changing the behaviour of 'man' wouldn't work on any platform
>> other than Linux (presumably), which means the git documentation
>> wouldn't be able to rely on that behaviour.
>>
>> Still, in a perfect world, what *should* man do in such a case?
>> Automatically open /usr/man/man1/git/clone.1?
>>
>
> That would probably be the best option, other options are $MANPATH/man1/git\
> clone.1 or $MANPATH/mangit/clone.git (I actually tried that on the
> assumption that it might treat "git" as a section; unfortunately, it didn't
> work.)
It works here. I have to add 'git' to the SECTION list in /etc/manpath.config.

Bert
>
>        -hpa