Re: Suggestion: "man git clone"

Federico Lucifredi wrote:

Hello HP,
 I have seen this in (funnily enough) a project I manage myself, which 
has subcommands structured similarly to Git.

 I have looked at options, but so far the current behavior (man foo-bar) 
seems the best option for foo's subcommand bar. The alternative, also 
acceptable, is a large page with subsections for each command. Sections 
(man 1) are used for chapter-like page groupings, not for subsections on 
a single command - those would have to be implemented as an additional 
layer.

 But, as another participant in the thread has commented, that would not 
port to other platforms very quickly (although it would get to Linux and 
OS-X promptly, and may eventually make its way into other platforms).

 I am open to ideas, but so far the two options above are better than 
anything else that has been so far suggested...

One option would be to support "man foo bar" showing the page labelled 
foo-bar.  That way you'd get at least a modicum of bass-ackwards 
compatibility.

However, at some point we have to be willing to do things other 
platforms won't, or we'll never do anything new...

	-hpa