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From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:11:40 +0300
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Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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To: Al Viro <viro@hera.kernel.org>
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Al Viro wrote (2008-08-26 18:55 +0000):

> Well, to be fair, "man git-add for git add is rather unconventional" is
> a valid point...

True. I'd say that for people familiar with other VCS/SCM tools the 
"$VCS help add" is probably the primary help interface. It works with 
many tools - git, hg, svn and bzr at least.