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man pages to subsections 1git...?

Subject: man pages to subsections 1git...?

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jidanni@jidanni.org· Dec 31, 2008, 00:12 UTC · lore
It seems like there are enough git man pages that they deserve their
own "honorary" subsections. Compare:
$ ls -R /usr/share/man/man?|sed ...|sort|uniq -c
     19 1p
    175 1posix
     45 1ssl
     10 1x
    487 3perl
    403 3pm
OK, the subsections would be 1git, 5git, and 7git.

However git-whatever is not something one can exactly can invoke from the shell anymore, is it proper to have such a named man page? Choices are e.g.,: $ apropos apply git-apply (1git) - Apply a patch on a git index file and a working tree git apply (1git) - Apply a patch on a git index file and a working tree apply (1git) - Apply a patch on a git index file and a working tree Oh no, something wrong with each. You guys fight it out. I'm outta here.

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