From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-help: Try to find html pages without the git- prefix Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:45:55 -0700 Message-ID: <7vy76x8e0s.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1209377611-90005-1-git-send-email-pdebie@ai.rug.nl> <200804290513.40948.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Pieter de Bie , git@vger.kernel.org To: Christian Couder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 29 06:47:03 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1Jqhk7-0000JN-8Y for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:47:03 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753512AbYD2EqP (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:46:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753463AbYD2EqO (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:46:14 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:34802 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753313AbYD2EqN (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:46:13 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60BCA24DB; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:46:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B770124DA; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:46:02 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <200804290513.40948.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> (Christian Couder's message of "Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:13:40 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Christian Couder writes: > We already have the following files following that scheme: > > gitk.txt > gitattributes.txt > gitignore.txt > gitcli.txt > gitmodules.txt > git.txt > > And for example the following commands are already working: > > $ git help -w gitmodules > $ git help -m gitmodules > $ man gitmodules That is not surprise as gitattributes(5), gitignore(5) and gitmodules(5) work by design. They are valid manual pages in section 5 (file formats). I am not sure about hooks let alone gitcli --- they are not something you would traditionally place in section 5. It would be nice if "git help " worked as expected, although I personally tend to go to the *.txt files ;-)