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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.

  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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