Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 04:24:50PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Before anybody greps in Documentation/ to make pointless noises about some
dashed-form git-foo in there when we do not talk about what the user types
but about a command as a concept in manual pages, they are left in dashed
form deliberately, partly to help manpage browsers crosslink across pages.

What is the other part? And is it really worth the confusion? Are the
gazillions cases of dashed-form git-foo in there where we DO talk about
what the user types "pointless noises" too?

(I have argued further in the other mail but somehow we seem to have
gone off the list with that subthread, hmm.)

				Petr "Pasky" Baudis