Re: [PATCH] Rename {git- => git}remote-helpers.txt
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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
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- Jan 31, 2013, 23:13 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
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>> Yes. I have thought for years that it should be git-remote-helpers, >> that "git help" should be tweaked to look for that, and that the >> existing gitrepository-layout and friends should be replaced with >> redirects. > > Because of the "git help" look up rules, we cannot have two pages > that only differ at the dash (or absense of it) immediately after > 'git'; e.g. one about the concept of 'frotz' in the context of Git, > i.e. "man gitfrotz", and the other about the subcommand to perform > 'frotz', i.e. "man git-frotz". The way to refer to these two pages > are both "git help frotz".
Exactly. Hence the disambiguating dash-versus-nondash convention buys us nothing.