Subject: Re: Suggestion: "man git clone"

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:31:04 -0700

Federico Lucifredi wrote:
> Hello HP, All,
>  I somehow managed to forget this (age must be taking its toll), but 
> there is a convention commonly used for man pages of Perl Modules, which 
> can be reasonably usable for subcommands as well:
> 
>  man APR::Brigade
> 
> will work just fine, with a file by the same name. This convention is in 
> current use, and would map to
> 
>  man git::clone
> 
> while :: is not as immediate in context as in Perl, it does do the job, 
> and works regardless of pager.
> 

That's just as bad as "man git-clone".  Arguably worse.

	-hpa