From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Federico Lucifredi Subject: Re: Suggestion: "man git clone" Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:07:56 -0400 Message-ID: <48AE035C.8000504@acm.org> References: <48ACB29C.7000606@zytor.com> <48ADE2FF.4080704@acm.org> <48ADF542.9010105@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Git Mailing List To: "H. Peter Anvin" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 22 02:09:05 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 1KWKD9-00041L-0N for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:09:03 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752614AbYHVAH7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:07:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752329AbYHVAH6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:07:58 -0400 Received: from mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net ([69.17.117.9]:48395 "EHLO mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752554AbYHVAH6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:07:58 -0400 Received: (qmail 15297 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2008 00:07:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO spaceman.local) (federico@[130.57.22.201]) (envelope-sender ) by mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 22 Aug 2008 00:07:57 -0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) In-Reply-To: <48ADF542.9010105@zytor.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Federico Lucifredi wrote: [...] >> I am open to ideas, but so far the two options above are better than >> anything else that has been so far suggested... >> > > One option would be to support "man foo bar" showing the page labelled > foo-bar. That way you'd get at least a modicum of bass-ackwards > compatibility. I am all for bass-ackwards compatibility, and I think the suggestion of going on "man foo bar" : 1) look for foo-bar; if success, terminate search 2) look for foo 3) look for bar .... may be acceptable - I don't see drawbacks at a first glance, and it would allow for groups of pages to be meaningful. Are you willing to put your patch where your mouth is? :-) Best -F > > However, at some point we have to be willing to do things other > platforms won't, or we'll never do anything new... > > -hpa -- _________________________________________ -- "'Problem' is a bleak word for challenge" - Richard Fish (Federico L. Lucifredi) - flucifredi@acm.org