Re: [PATCH] git-daemon documentation: use {tilde}

From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Dec 17, 2008, 09:07 UTC
Message-ID: <4948C143.8030609@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <vpqbpvcro5z.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy venit, vidit, dixit 16.12.2008 19:05:

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> Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
> 
>> Miklos Vajna venit, vidit, dixit 16.12.2008 16:48:
>>> Use '{tilde}' instead of '~', becase the later does not appear in the
>>> manpage version, just in the HTML one.
>> Curiously, "git help daemon" (which execs "man git-daemon") displays the
>> tilde but "man git-daemon" does not (nor does "konqueror
>> man:git-daemon"). Humh?
> 
> You probably have two manpages because of two git installations. "man"
> will take the one in your manpath, and git will try to find the one
> corresponding to the version of git you actually launched.

You're right! I have current pages in ~/share/man/man? and older ones in ~/man/man?. I guess the latter is in the standard search path (I don't have MANPATH set) but the former is not. I probably dumped a man-tarball in the standard place back when I didn't know about quick-install-doc. Now I'm just wondering why ~/share/man is the standard target for git and ~/man in the standard man path, at least on (K)Ubuntu 7.10 at my workplace.

Michael