{"thread":{"id":"16937","subject":"man pages to subsections 1git...?","startedAt":"2008-12-31T00:12:15Z","lastAt":"2008-12-31T00:12:15Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["jidanni@jidanni.org"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"99029","messageId":"87hc4lnqxs.fsf@jidanni.org","threadId":"16937","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"man pages to subsections 1git...?","fromName":"","fromEmail":"jidanni@jidanni.org","sentAt":"2008-12-31T00:12:15Z","receivedAt":"2008-12-31T00:12:15Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"jidanni@jidanni.org","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/36568d4af4c8d3e71627ef3b8c8d00e39065b12f29676cccd38ced75e68fa2a6?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"It seems like there are enough git man pages that they deserve their\nown \"honorary\" subsections. Compare:\n$ ls -R /usr/share/man/man?|sed ...|sort|uniq -c\n     19 1p\n    175 1posix\n     45 1ssl\n     10 1x\n    487 3perl\n    403 3pm\nOK, the subsections would be 1git, 5git, and 7git.\n\nHowever git-whatever is not something one can exactly can invoke from\nthe shell anymore, is it proper to have such a named man page?\nChoices are e.g.,:\n$ apropos apply\ngit-apply (1git)     - Apply a patch on a git index file and a working tree\ngit apply (1git)     - Apply a patch on a git index file and a working tree\napply (1git)         - Apply a patch on a git index file and a working tree\nOh no, something wrong with each. You guys fight it out. I'm outta here.\n"}]}