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Re: [PATCH v2] cmd-list.perl: fix identifying man sections

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 23, 2022, 17:01 UTC
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Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> writes:
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> We attribute each documentation text file to a man section by finding a
> line in the file that looks like "gitfoo(<digit>)". Commit cc75e556a9
> ("scalar: add to 'git help -a' command list", 2022-09-02) updated this
> logic to look not only for "gitfoo" but also "scalarfoo". In doing so,
> it forgot to account for the fact that after the updated regex has found
> a match, the man section is no longer to be found in `$1` but now lives
> in `$2`.
>
> This makes our git(1) manpage look as follows:
>
>   Main porcelain commands
>        git-add(git)
>            Add file contents to the index.
Thanks.  Will queue.
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  1. cmd-list.perl: fix identifying man sectionsMartin Ågren, Sep 23, 2022
  2. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonSep 23, 2022
  3. cmd-list.perl: fix identifying man sectionsMartin Ågren, Sep 23, 2022
  4. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonSep 23, 2022
  5. Martin ÅgrenSep 23, 2022
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 23, 2022
  7. Jeff KingSep 23, 2022
  8. Martin ÅgrenSep 26, 2022
  9. Junio C HamanoSep 26, 2022
  10. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonSep 26, 2022

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