Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins

From

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Date

Aug 26, 2008, 19:04 UTC

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<alpine.LFD.1.10.0808261202280.3363@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>

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<20080826185548.GA7559@hera.kernel.org>

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Al Viro wrote:

> 
> Well, to be fair, "man git-add for git add is rather unconventional" is
> a valid point...

On the other hand:

 - "man" simply cannot currently handle "man git add", even though there's 
   been some noise to teach it.

 - you can use "git help add" instead, since git itself does understand 
   this. It will just go "man git-add" for you, so that your fingers don't 
   have to type that dash ;)

> FWIW, personally I couldn't care less as long as manpages *are* there and
> we do not end up with something like "oh, just use info / html / some other
> weird crap; manpages are not suitable(tm), dontcha know"

		Linus