From: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "\"Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)\"" <4ux6as402@sneakemail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Suggestion: "man git clone"
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:37:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48AEA510.6040004@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48AD99DF.5090802@zytor.com>
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists) wrote:
>>
>> Sorry man that behaviour is the way "man" works. See "man man".
>>
>> $ git clone --help
>> or
>> $ git help clone
>>
>> work right?
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> P.S: man, there are puns in that...
>
> I know that that is the way "man" currently works.
>
> I doubt you find *anyone* who relies on the current behaviour, so I am
> suggesting changing man. That's why the man author was on the recipient
> list, but you removed it.
Actually, the current "man" behavior is very convenient when you want
to lookup multiple things. And *I* do use that feature.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-22 11:39 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
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 [this message]
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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