From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:44:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] Documentation: complicate example of "man git-command"
Message-ID: <7vvdzn2yza.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200807030806.37771.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:

> Anyway if we want to get there, perhaps we should use "git help svn" above 
> instead of "man git-svn". (Yeah "git help help" might be confusing at 
> first.)

I do not particularly like advocating "git help" too strongly like that.
I prefer to keep the user perception of "git" to be just "one of the
programs, nothing special".

If you want to learn about "cat", you say "man cat".  If you want to learn
about git, you say "man git", and while you *can* say "git help", the
point is you do *not* have to.  You do not have to run "git" to learn
about it.