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Re: [PATCH] Bugfix: stop if directory already exists

From
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Nov 14, 2005, 21:30 UTC
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<7vlkzqx6hg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
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Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:
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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>>> usage: git clone ...
>>> For more details, see 'man git-clone'
>> And "for more details see man" goes without saying.
>
> But we name them differently, as hpa pointed out some week ago.
>
> When I see "usage: <prog> <command>" I expect to find the info in "man 
> <prog>".
... meaning, "man git", which would list the subcommands.

And a user who got "usage: git clone blah" and did "man git" once is intelligent enough to know and remember "man git" lists the subcommands, what she wanted to know about was listed as "git-clone(1)", and she had to do "man git-clone", so next time around we should be able to expect her to do "man git-commit". Am I overestimating the users or overtaxing them?

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Message 6 of 8 in “Bugfix: stop if directory already exists”
  1. Bugfix: stop if directory already existsJosef Weidendorfer, Nov 13, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoNov 14, 2005
  3. Andreas EricssonNov 14, 2005
  4. Josef WeidendorferNov 14, 2005
  5. Andreas EricssonNov 14, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoNov 14, 2005
  7. Josef WeidendorferNov 14, 2005
  8. Andreas EricssonNov 14, 2005

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