From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:14:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Suggestion: "man git clone"
Message-ID: <48ADCCB1.6040803@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080821201307.GC27705@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 01:38:42PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> 
>> There is some configuration magic about what is a section. Try
>>
>>   perl -pi -e 's/^SECTION.*/$& git/' /etc/manpath.config
>>
>> That seems to convince my man to look in .../mangit, but I'm having
>> trouble actually getting it to find a page and I don't have time to
>> investigate further now.
> 
> Ah, OK. My problem was that the pages actually need to be named "am.git",
> etc. But with 'git' in the section field, "man git am" does work.
> Unfortunately, it seems to break "man git". :(
> 
> -Peff

Yeah, that pretty much makes it not a general solution.

	-hpa