On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 15:42 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Drew Northup wrote: > > I was just thinking of that, and for hoots and hollers I > > copied /usr/share/man/man1/git-am.1.gz > > to /usr/share/man/man1/git-amp.1.gz and tried "git help amp" on it. > > > > [dnorthup@drew-northup ~]$ git help amp > > No manual entry for gitamp > > > > So, that doesn't work. I haven't checked yet how Git "knows" what valid > > pages are available for "git help" but just putting another file in the > > same directory as the others didn't do the job (at least not on my > > workstation). > > If git-amp is available in $PATH, 'git help amp' runs 'man git-amp'. > Otherwise, it runs 'man gitamp'. That's what I thought too, but it didn't work! (<still scratching head here>) I'll have to try a couple of other ways to break it later on. > Tools like autoconf etc already know how to install man pages into the > right places. I don't see the need for any additional support for git > here. I'm not saying there should be--in fact quite the opposite. -- -Drew Northup ________________________________________________ "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?" -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html