Re: git-remote-helpers.txt: should it be gitremote-helpers.txt?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 30, 2013, 20:28 UTC
Message-ID: <7vfw1ijtz2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130130201102.GM1342@serenity.lan>

John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> writes:

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> Max Horn's email today prompted me to try reading the git-remote-helpers
> man page, so I tried:
>
>     $ git help remote-helpers
>     No manual entry for gitremote-helpers
>
> But "man git-remote-helpers" does work.
>
> It turns out that "builtin/help.c" maps its argument to a page by
> prepending "git-" if given the name of a Git command and "git"
> otherwise.
>
> Does this mean that "git-remote-helpers.txt" should lose the first
> hyphen or is help.c not being clever enough in some way?

I think it is the former. "git help tutorial" works exactly the same way.