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Re: Suggestion: "man git clone"

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Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 21, 2008, 17:07 UTC
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On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:37 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
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> man git clone
>
> [...]
>
> I doubt you find *anyone* who relies on the current behaviour, so I am
> suggesting changing man.  That's why the man author was on the recipient
> list, but you removed it.
>
[and I put him back...]
Unfortunately what we don't have is a proposal that would work better.
 Also, changing the behaviour of 'man' wouldn't work on any platform
other than Linux (presumably), which means the git documentation
wouldn't be able to rely on that behaviour.

Still, in a perfect world, what *should* man do in such a case? Automatically open /usr/man/man1/git/clone.1?

Thanks,
Avery
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