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From: Andrew Johnson <ajohnson388@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Why are there multiple ways to get the manual in Git?
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 13:47:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM_5GX48gDAZSvAWnxO5n8uhYf8vmfAJ88_31_ewsQxyPfF7iA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

I was curious as to why the developers of Git decided to have three
methods to get the manual for a verb. I am a developer who strives to
understand Git to its fullest extent, and will share any information
given on this question.

While reading Pro Git 2nd Ed. I came across these three methods:

$ git help <verb>
$ git <verb> --help
$ man git-<verb>

I tested all three to confirm they were equivalent.

What was the motivation behind the complication, if any? I presume
most developers would not provide multiple commands that do the same
thing for absolutely no reason, so I led myself to ask this question.

Respectfully,
Andrew Johnson

             reply	other threads:[~2016-09-17 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-17 17:47 Andrew Johnson [this message]
2016-09-17 18:39 ` Why are there multiple ways to get the manual in Git? Fredrik Gustafsson
2016-09-17 19:12   ` Philip Oakley
2016-09-17 19:21   ` Christian Couder
2016-09-18 10:21   ` Jakub Narębski
2016-09-18 10:51     ` Philip Oakley
2016-09-19 15:59       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-19 16:22         ` Philip Oakley

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