Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.9g

H. Peter Anvin wrote:

Andreas Ericsson wrote:

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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.

Someone sent in a (broken) patch that pulls up the proper man-page for
	git help <command>

It's a rather good idea, so I'll be working it into the C implementation of git as soon as the core of it is implemented.

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- 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.

Perhaps, but allowing the possibility of splitting them can't be wrong. When that's in place we only have to decide if we're going to or not.

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