From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:45:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-help: Try to find html pages without the git- prefix
Message-ID: <7vy76x8e0s.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200804290513.40948.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:

> We already have the following files following that scheme:
>
> gitk.txt
> gitattributes.txt
> gitignore.txt
> gitcli.txt
> gitmodules.txt
> git.txt
>
> And for example the following commands are already working:
>
> $ git help -w gitmodules
> $ git help -m gitmodules
> $ man gitmodules

That is not surprise as gitattributes(5), gitignore(5) and gitmodules(5)
work by design.  They are valid manual pages in section 5 (file formats).

I am not sure about hooks let alone gitcli --- they are not something you
would traditionally place in section 5.

It would be nice if "git help <any path you see in Documentation/>" worked
as expected, although I personally tend to go to the *.txt files ;-)