Re: RFC: a plugin architecture for git extensions?

From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Date: Apr 27, 2011, 19:42 UTC
Message-ID: <20110427194233.GA16717@gnu.kitenet.net>
In-Reply-To: <1303930175.25134.38.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>

Drew Northup wrote:

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> I was just thinking of that, and for hoots and hollers I
> copied /usr/share/man/man1/git-am.1.gz
> to /usr/share/man/man1/git-amp.1.gz and tried "git help amp" on it.
> 
> 	[dnorthup@drew-northup ~]$ git help amp
> 	No manual entry for gitamp
> 
> So, that doesn't work. I haven't checked yet how Git "knows" what valid
> pages are available for "git help" but just putting another file in the
> same directory as the others didn't do the job (at least not on my
> workstation).

If git-amp is available in $PATH, 'git help amp' runs 'man git-amp'. Otherwise, it runs 'man gitamp'.

Tools like autoconf etc already know how to install man pages into the right places. I don't see the need for any additional support for git here.

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