From: Christian Couder Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:39:17 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] Documentation: complicate example of "man git-command" Message-ID: <200807010139.17754.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> In-Reply-To: Le mardi 1 juillet 2008, Jonathan Nieder a écrit : > 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 > --- > 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 " at the same time. Thanks, Christian.