Re: Suggestion: "man git clone"

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Aug 22, 2008, 01:21 UTC
Message-ID: <20080822012112.GA31615@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080822011515.GY23800@genesis.frugalware.org>

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 03:15:15AM +0200, Miklos Vajna wrote:

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> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 08:40:52PM -0400, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > I've never looked at man code before, but there seem to be at least two
> > man packages for Linux. My boxes have man-db 2.5.2.
> 
> Obviously that's not the one Federico maintains. ;-)
> 
> See http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/, it's at 1.6f.

Right. What I meant was two-fold:

  1. "I am not going to take your patch challenge, because I don't even
     seem to be running your man pager."

  2. It has been noted in this thread that this will only affect Linux.
     But it is even worse; it will only affect some distributions. So
     people need to get several implementations to agree.

-Peff