From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:28:49 GMT
Subject: Re: git-remote-helpers.txt: should it be gitremote-helpers.txt?
Message-ID: <7vfw1ijtz2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130130201102.GM1342@serenity.lan>

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

> 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.