Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3-rc4

From: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Date: Aug 4, 2007, 16:03 UTC
Message-ID: <46B4A35E.5040601@midwinter.com>
In-Reply-To: <85zm17h4pn.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

David Kastrup wrote:

> A system such as info, in contrast, is hierarchical, and organized
> with indexes and cross references making it much easier to find
> things.

Really? I find info a huge pain in the butt most of the time. I can't just do a simple text search for the information I want in the relevant manpage; I have to go navigating around to the appropriate subsection (and that's assuming I know where it is) and am forced to use the emacs-style pager whether I like it or not (not a big emacs fan here). It always ticks me off when I go to read the manpage for some command and it tells me to go read the info page if I want complete documentation.

I would definitely not want to move to a documentation system that prevented me from typing "man git-commit" to get a list of all the command line options for that command.

However, that said, I have no objection to an alternate view of the same information that's organized differently.

Am I alone in my dislike of info, I wonder?

-Steve