Subject: Re: Suggestion: "man git clone"

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:22:47 -0700

Avery Pennarun wrote:
> 
> [and I put him back...]
> 
> Unfortunately what we don't have is a proposal that would work better.
>  Also, changing the behaviour of 'man' wouldn't work on any platform
> other than Linux (presumably), which means the git documentation
> wouldn't be able to rely on that behaviour.
> 
> Still, in a perfect world, what *should* man do in such a case?
> Automatically open /usr/man/man1/git/clone.1?
> 

That would probably be the best option, other options are 
$MANPATH/man1/git\ clone.1 or $MANPATH/mangit/clone.git (I actually 
tried that on the assumption that it might treat "git" as a section; 
unfortunately, it didn't work.)

	-hpa