From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.9g Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:17:07 -0800 Message-ID: <43750A53.9090602@zytor.com> References: <7vmzkc2a3e.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <43730E39.6030601@pobox.com> <43737F9E.60703@zytor.com> <437392AD.20906@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 11 22:19:38 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EagHj-0004zD-Kh for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 22:18:12 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751202AbVKKVRS (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:17:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751203AbVKKVRS (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:17:18 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:12715 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751202AbVKKVRR (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:17:17 -0500 Received: from [10.4.1.13] (yardgnome.orionmulti.com [209.128.68.65]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jABLHCi1021065 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:17:12 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Andreas Ericsson In-Reply-To: <437392AD.20906@op5.se> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87.1, clamav-milter version 0.87 on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Andreas Ericsson wrote: >> >> It's nice in concept, but I think there are a lot of reasons why this >> is a bad idea: >> >> - "man" doesn't handle it. It would be another thing if "man" could >> be taught to understand commands like "man cvs checkout" or "man git >> fetch". > > This is moot. man-pages can still be named git-fetch. > Yes, of course, but that requires the user to be aware of yet another program-specific convention. I do believe that supporting hierarchial man pages would be a good thing, but one has to start that in the proper point. >> - There is no general way to teach shells etc about it, for tab >> completion etc. > > Add the lib directory to the path (for git-) or have it > auto-evaluate the result of a git command-listing. ... which means the end user has to do something specific to their environment. All in all, I think the negatives outweigh the positives. -hpa