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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, 10:36 UTC
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On Monday 14 November 2005 10:28, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
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> But we name them differently, as hpa pointed out some week ago.
> 
> When I see "usage: <prog> <command>" I expect to find the info in "man 
> <prog>". Soon, this will work to get the right page
> 
> 	git --help <command>

This is a nice feature, but still needs educating the user. I think that the idea of a huge git man page is not that bad; for sure, it can be created automatically.

A huge man page helps searching a command name (Ah, what was the command to see commit logs per file? What is the counterpart of "cvs update" called?).

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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