From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Suggestion: "man git clone" Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:11:08 -0700 Message-ID: <48ACB29C.7000606@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: flucifredi@acm.org, Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 21 02:12:36 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KVxmu-0006eQ-3B for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:12:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751974AbYHUALO (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:11:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752614AbYHUALO (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:11:14 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:40123 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750923AbYHUALN (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:11:13 -0400 Received: from mail.hos.anvin.org (c-98-210-181-100.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [98.210.181.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m7L0BAKc032065 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:11:10 -0700 Received: from tazenda.hos.anvin.org (tazenda.hos.anvin.org [172.27.0.16]) by mail.hos.anvin.org (8.14.2/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m7L0BAqO020714; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:11:10 -0700 Received: from tazenda.hos.anvin.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tazenda.hos.anvin.org (8.14.2/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m7L0B8Go007187; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:11:09 -0700 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.3/8060/Wed Aug 20 13:17:24 2008 on terminus.zytor.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Given the recent change of "git-foo" to "git foo", it would be really nice if one could type, for example: man git clone and actually get the man page for the git clone command. There are quite a few other pieces of software which also could benefit from that kind of indirection. Right now the above command shows the man page git(1) followed by clone(2), which I believe has be classified as utterly useless behaviour... -hpa