On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 19:22, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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.) It works here. I have to add 'git' to the SECTION list in /etc/manpath.config. Bert > > -hpa -- 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
