From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 23:13:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rename {git- => git}remote-helpers.txt
Message-ID: <20130131231341.GO27340@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vhalxdk2q.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

>> 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.