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gitk --help doesn't

Subject: gitk --help doesn't

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jidanni@jidanni.org· Jan 6, 2009, 03:22 UTC · lore

gitk --help doesn't print the man text, instead it furls headlong into, well, gitk --help which of course is not a happy scene.

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