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Re: Manual Pages

From: Jeff Smith <jsmith_at_robotronics.com>
Date: 2007-02-13 21:26:42 CET

[original question from "Nadav Har'El"
http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2007-01/0922.shtml ]
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 09:01, Mark Moore wrote:
> I just wanted to add my voice to the benefits of man pages when
> working in a command line environment.
>
> As Nadav speculates in his post, there *are* existing tools to
> extract man pages from HTML.  And, the XML that almost certainly is
> the source behind the online svnbook is designed to be rendered in
> multiple formats (e.g. HTML & PDF).

I'm not good at leaving old threads alone, but...

I don't think the reason was explained well enough, why we don't need
to install man pages. I don't see that anyone mentioned the
documentation that is _more_ convenient than man pages:

svn --help

Does that not provide just as much as should the man pages? If not, it
needs to. Sometimes man page installation is more confusing or memory
consuming, but if I'm using `svn add` then I'd rather be able to just
say `svn --help add`, and that's just what I do.

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