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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] git --help COMMAND brings up the git-COMMAND man-page., take two
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To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

> The way this made it into the actual tree was to call /usr/bin/man, but 
> still using execlp().  This is clearly bogus.  There *ARE* good reasons 
> to use PATH resolutions for this, since man is one of the interactive 
> commands the user may want to wrapper.

Oh, that was my call, so please do not blame Andreas.
I just sent out a proposed patch to address all the points
discussed on the list for the last several hours.