From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Suggestion: "man git clone" Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:22:47 -0700 Message-ID: <48ADA467.1030407@zytor.com> References: <48ACB29C.7000606@zytor.com> <48ACB5F4.3000905@sneakemail.com> <48AD99DF.5090802@zytor.com> <32541b130808211007xf295e40l567ecf785a8fca22@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Peter_Valdemar_M=F8rch_=28Lists=29=22?= <4ux6as402@sneakemail.com>, flucifredi@acm.org, Git ML To: Avery Pennarun X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 21 19:24:02 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 1KWDt9-0007aY-Ge for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:23:59 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751909AbYHURWz (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:22:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751870AbYHURWz (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:22:55 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:47239 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751371AbYHURWy (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:22:54 -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 m7LHMmBp001858 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:22:49 -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 m7LHMmQn027037; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:22:48 -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 m7LHMlhE018665; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:22:47 -0700 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) In-Reply-To: <32541b130808211007xf295e40l567ecf785a8fca22@mail.gmail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.3/8065/Thu Aug 21 08:27:29 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: 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