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Re: [PATCH] Make git status usage say git status instead of git commit

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EBEyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind-git-list@orakel.ntnu.no>
Date
Dec 3, 2007, 12:04 UTC
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On 3. des. 2007, at 11.15, Florian Weimer wrote:
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> * David Kastrup:
>
>> Deprecating the dash form will probably mean that we need to think up
>> (and document) a rationale for
>>
>>   man git-commit
>>
>> I actually have typed something like
>>
>>   man git commit
>>
>> a number of times already with obvious results.  Finger memory.
>
> It's also a bit strange to have a git-commit(1) manpage when there  
> is no
> git-commit on the path.

No stranger than having a perlfunc(1) manpage. bash-builtins is in section 7, maybe git-* should be moved there? Of course, then git wouldn't have any manpages in section 1 at all.

Eyvind
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Message 5 of 6 in “Make git status usage say git status instead of git commit”
  1. Make git status usage say git status instead of git commitShawn Bohrer, Dec 3, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 3, 2007
  3. David KastrupDec 3, 2007
  4. Florian WeimerDec 3, 2007
  5. Eyvind BernhardsenDec 3, 2007
  6. Miklos VajnaDec 3, 2007

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