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Re: [PATCH] Bugfix: stop if directory already exists

From
Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date
Nov 14, 2005, 09:37 UTC
Message-ID
<43785AD4.7020201@op5.se>
In-Reply-To
<200511141029.18256.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
> So just another suggestion: Why not put most of the
> documentation in a huge "git" man page?
Becuase it's horrible. I like the fact that they are split up.
> cvs does this (3601 lines
> here), all the shells have huge man pages (bash: 4794).
> We would be in a good tradition ;-)
> 

We would be in tradition, but not necessarily a good one. Just because some stupid swede let some herrings ferment in a tin can some 800 years ago there's really no need to say "surströmming! What a clever idea!!" and actually eat the horrible things.

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  1. Bugfix: stop if directory already existsJosef Weidendorfer, Nov 13, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoNov 14, 2005
  3. Andreas EricssonNov 14, 2005
  4. Josef WeidendorferNov 14, 2005
  5. Andreas EricssonNov 14, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoNov 14, 2005
  7. Josef WeidendorferNov 14, 2005
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