Andreas Ericsson wrote: >> >> It's nice in concept, but I think there are a lot of reasons why this >> is a bad idea: >> >> - "man" doesn't handle it. It would be another thing if "man" could >> be taught to understand commands like "man cvs checkout" or "man git >> fetch". > > This is moot. man-pages can still be named git-fetch. > Yes, of course, but that requires the user to be aware of yet another program-specific convention. I do believe that supporting hierarchial man pages would be a good thing, but one has to start that in the proper point. >> - There is no general way to teach shells etc about it, for tab >> completion etc. > > Add the lib directory to the path (for git-<tab><tab>) or have it > auto-evaluate the result of a git command-listing. ... which means the end user has to do something specific to their environment. All in all, I think the negatives outweigh the positives. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Sat Nov 12 08:19:12 2005
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