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[187.189.163.231]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id f6sm3149890oop.31.2021.07.06.15.31.29 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 06 Jul 2021 15:31:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2021 17:31:28 -0500 From: Felipe Contreras To: =?UTF-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsCBCamFybWFzb24=?= , Felipe Contreras Cc: Theodore Ts'o , Atharva Raykar , Git List Message-ID: <60e4d9c07914e_1c42812081a@natae.notmuch> In-Reply-To: <87wnq57q9n.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> References: <60df97ed24687_34a92088a@natae.notmuch> <60e0a9707e09a_2f7208f2@natae.notmuch> <60e1ee7a3cfbc_6d11d20811@natae.notmuch> <87wnq57q9n.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> Subject: Re: The git spring cleanup challenge completion Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org =C3=86var Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0 Bjarmason wrote: > On Sun, Jul 04 2021, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > I think there's some value in that idea but that doesn't solve the sa= me > > problem my suggestion solves. Basically there's too many commands in > > `man git`. Splitting the git binary would allow us to only put the > > important commands in `man git`. > > > > I think having too many commands overwhelms many newcomers, because t= hey > > don't know which it's important for them to learn and which are > > basically noise. > = > I'm very much for the idea of a cleanup of "man git", but I don't think= > we need to introduce a git-tool(1) for that. Indeed, it's not *necessary*, but it would help tremendously. > E.g. "man perl" is a good example of where we should be > headed. I.e. right off the bat in "man git" we have a long listing of > command-line options to git itself, things like --exec-path and > --no-optional-locks etc. are useful to almost no casual user. > = > We should really split everything except a passing mention of -p, -P, -= c > etc. into a "man gitrun" or something (just like perl has "man > perlrun"), ditto the whole "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES" section. I like that. For the record zsh also splits man pages that way. I would prefer `git-run` (or `git-core`) though, althought if somebody at some point wants to create such a built-in that would be problematic. -- = Felipe Contreras=