From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:31:04 GMT
Subject: Re: Suggestion: "man git clone"
Message-ID: <48BF5678.8080201@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <48BF4662.9000305@acm.org>

Federico Lucifredi wrote:
> Hello HP, All,
>  I somehow managed to forget this (age must be taking its toll), but 
> there is a convention commonly used for man pages of Perl Modules, which 
> can be reasonably usable for subcommands as well:
> 
>  man APR::Brigade
> 
> will work just fine, with a file by the same name. This convention is in 
> current use, and would map to
> 
>  man git::clone
> 
> while :: is not as immediate in context as in Perl, it does do the job, 
> and works regardless of pager.
> 

That's just as bad as "man git-clone".  Arguably worse.

	-hpa