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From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Bugfix: stop if directory already exists
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 11:47:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43786B26.703@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511141136.19192.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>

Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
> On Monday 14 November 2005 10:28, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
>>But we name them differently, as hpa pointed out some week ago.
>>
>>When I see "usage: <prog> <command>" I expect to find the info in "man 
>><prog>". Soon, this will work to get the right page
>>
>>	git --help <command>
> 
> 
> This is a nice feature, but still needs educating the user.

This feature goes away with the huge man-page.

> I think that the idea of a huge git man page is not that bad; for sure,
> it can be created automatically.
> 
> A huge man page helps searching a command name (Ah, what was the
> command to see commit logs per file?  What is the counterpart of
> "cvs update" called?).
> 

This is already implemented (sort of), but perhaps have both? Or 
pointers to the other man-pages from the "git" one (as is already sort 
of done).

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5.se
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-14 10:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-13 14:03 [PATCH] Bugfix: stop if directory already exists Josef Weidendorfer
2005-11-14  8:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-14  9:28   ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-14 10:36     ` Josef Weidendorfer
2005-11-14 10:47       ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2005-11-14 21:30     ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-14  9:29   ` Josef Weidendorfer
2005-11-14  9:37     ` Andreas Ericsson

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