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Re: [PATCH] Bugfix: stop if directory already exists

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JWJosef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date
Nov 14, 2005, 09:29 UTC
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On Monday 14 November 2005 09:57, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> writes:
> >  usage: git clone ...
> >  For more details, see 'man git-clone'
> 
> doing too much awk these days").  And "for more details see man"
> goes without saying.

Of course; it was more about the current inconsistency: usage says "git clone", but for the man page, you have to know that there is an additional command "git-clone" with extra man page. Usually, if I see e.g. "usage: cvs diff", I look up the man page of "cvs" searching for "diff" on it, not "cvs-diff".

So just another suggestion: Why not put most of the documentation in a huge "git" man page? cvs does this (3601 lines here), all the shells have huge man pages (bash: 4794). We would be in a good tradition ;-)

Josef
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  1. Bugfix: stop if directory already existsJosef Weidendorfer, Nov 13, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoNov 14, 2005
  3. Andreas EricssonNov 14, 2005
  4. Josef WeidendorferNov 14, 2005
  5. Andreas EricssonNov 14, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoNov 14, 2005
  7. Josef WeidendorferNov 14, 2005
  8. Andreas EricssonNov 14, 2005

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