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> I ran "man git" for the first time ever. > But the man pages are my first go-to It's not strictly a logical contradiction, but doesn't make much sense eithe
by guenthert 6y ago
> I ran "man git" for the first time ever.
> But the man pages are my first go-to
It's not strictly a logical contradiction, but doesn't make much sense either.
- lioeters 6y agoYou got me there. I should have said, man pages are my go-to for POSIX commands. For Git, I usually turn to online documentation (at https://git-scm.com/docs https://git-scm.com/docs) or, more often than not, search for keywords and, yes, end up at StackOverflow. That supports the root-parent comment's point, that there are "fundamental design issues of POSIX", if users new and experienced must resort to such channels. It also implies that "man" as the default documentation system is not sufficiently meeting our needs.