Re: [PATCH 3/7] Documentation: complicate example of "man git-command"
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Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
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- Jun 30, 2008, 23:39 UTC
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Le mardi 1 juillet 2008, Jonathan Nieder a écrit :
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> The manual page for the command invoked as "git clone" is named > git-clone(1), and similarly for the rest of the git commands. > Make sure our first example of this in tutorials makes it clear > that it is the first two words of a command line that make up the > command's name (that is: for example, the effect of "git svn > dcommit" is described in git-svn(1)). > > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> > --- > If I didn't make this change, consistency would mean > saying "you can get documentation for a command such > as `git-diff` with `man git-diff`", which might not be > very enlightening.
By the way, while at it, maybe we could talk about "git help <cmd/topic>" at the same time.
Thanks, Christian.