Re: Contributor Guide "volunteers" needed

[Patrick McCarty]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:02:35PM +0100, Francisco Vila wrote:
> 2009/1/18 Patrick McCarty <address@hidden>:
> > The most important thing about git commands that we should be
> > *absolutely* consistent about is this:
> >
> > (1) git-format-patch origin
> >
> > ...versus...
> >
> > (2) git format-patch origin
> >
> > Out of the box, command (1) will only work for Git versions < 1.6.*,
> > and command (2) will work for all Git versions.
> 
> Even in latest version, if you want to look at the git's man page, don't do
> 
>      man git format-patch
> 
> but
> 
>      man git-format-patch
> 
> which is a manpage request for a single-word command. The same is true
> for all other git commands.

Yes, that's another inconsistency that is slightly annoying, but we
should definitely explain that in the CG too.

Thanks,
Patrick