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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: a plugin architecture for git extensions?
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:
>
>> You're utterly horribly wrong. ...
>> ...
>> So the complete description would be
>>
>>   git clone git://somerepo/gitworks
>>   cd gitworks
>>   make install
>>
>> and the rest is in developer hands.
>
> Yeah, I like this as the conclusion of this thread ;-).

Having said that, to make this work well not just for the command but for
documentation and help, there needs a way for the build procedure of such
user-script project to query the manpage and the documentation paths, just
like we let them query the executable path via "git --exec-path".