From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:38:42 GMT
Subject: Re: Suggestion: "man git clone"
Message-ID: <20080821173842.GB26920@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <48ADA467.1030407@zytor.com>

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:22:47AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> That would probably be the best option, other options are  
> $MANPATH/man1/git\ clone.1 or $MANPATH/mangit/clone.git (I actually tried 
> that on the assumption that it might treat "git" as a section;  
> unfortunately, it didn't work.)

There is some configuration magic about what is a section. Try

  perl -pi -e 's/^SECTION.*/$& git/' /etc/manpath.config

That seems to convince my man to look in .../mangit, but I'm having
trouble actually getting it to find a page and I don't have time to
investigate further now.

-Peff