From: Matthieu Moy Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 12:08:42 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] Doc clean: add See Also links Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1347793083-4136-8-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org> Philip Oakley writes: > --- a/Documentation/git-clean.txt > +++ b/Documentation/git-clean.txt > @@ -63,6 +63,12 @@ OPTIONS > Remove only files ignored by git. This may be useful to rebuild > everything from scratch, but keep manually created files. > > +SEE ALSO > +-------- > +linkgit:gitignore[5] > +linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5] > +The optional configuration variable `core.excludesfile` linkgit:git-config[1] I think linkgit:gitignore[5] is enough. linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5] is a very general documentation, it's not clear to the reader which part is intended to be read in complement to git-clean, and indeed, the relevant information is already in linkgit:gitignore[5]. Same for core.excludesfile which is already documented in linkgit:gitignore[5]. Otherwise, I suspect we'll end-up having the transitive closure of SEE ALSO in each manpage ... -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/