From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Cc: "\"Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)\"" <4ux6as402@sneakemail.com>,
flucifredi@acm.org, "Git ML" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Suggestion: "man git clone"
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:22:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48ADA467.1030407@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32541b130808211007xf295e40l567ecf785a8fca22@mail.gmail.com>
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.)
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-21 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-21 0:11 Suggestion: "man git clone" H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-21 0:25 ` "Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)"
2008-08-21 16:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-21 17:07 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-08-21 17:22 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-08-21 17:38 ` Jeff King
2008-08-21 20:13 ` Jeff King
2008-08-21 20:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-21 20:18 ` Jeff King
2008-08-21 17:52 ` Bert Wesarg
2008-08-22 11:37 ` A Large Angry SCM
2008-08-21 21:49 ` Federico Lucifredi
2008-08-21 23:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-22 0:07 ` Federico Lucifredi
2008-08-22 0:40 ` Jeff King
2008-08-22 0:42 ` Jeff King
2008-08-22 1:15 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-08-22 1:21 ` Jeff King
2008-08-22 1:21 ` Federico Lucifredi
2008-08-22 1:19 ` Federico Lucifredi
2009-06-28 2:34 ` Colin Watson
2009-07-06 2:48 ` Federico Lucifredi
2009-07-06 4:11 ` Federico Lucifredi
2008-09-04 2:22 ` Federico Lucifredi
2008-09-04 3:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-22 11:02 ` Michael J Gruber
2008-08-22 15:03 ` Derek Fawcus
2008-08-22 15:53 ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-08-25 12:38 ` Matthieu Moy
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