# man pages to subsections 1git...?

1 messages from 2008-12-31 to 2008-12-31. Participants: jidanni@jidanni.org.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/16937

## jidanni@jidanni.org, 2008-12-31 00:12

Subject: man pages to subsections 1git...?
Message-ID: <87hc4lnqxs.fsf@jidanni.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87hc4lnqxs.fsf%40jidanni.org

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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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