RE: Re: Manual Pages

> 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.
>

I think that it is just a case of following conventions. On a *nix
system, when I want a hint on which svn commands to use, I would rather
use 'man svn' as per most of the other *nix utilities like gunzip, tar
etc. If I need anymore detail info, I would RTFM.

I think svn is probably the only *nix command that I know of that has
the help subcommand.

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Tehn Yit Chin
Embedded System Engineer, AAPL
 
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