On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:01:29PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote: >On 17 February 2006 17:54, Dill, Jens (END-CHI) wrote: > >> In another context, Dave Korn writes: >> >>> Have you looked into 'rebaseall' yet? >> >> My reaction: >> >> o Don't know about that, let's look it up. >> >> o Try "man rebaseall" in CygWin shell. No luck. > > Just FYI, some things have info pages but no man pages. Any time you try >"man XXX" and it doesn't work, it's always worth trying "info XXX" as well. > >> o Try searching Windows 2003 Help. No luck. >> >> o Google search turns up people who are complaining >> about using it or announcing changes to it. >> >> o Now clear that it is a CygWin package distributed >> as "rebase" >> >> o Verified that "rebase 2.4.2-1" is installed on my box. >> >> o Try "man rebase" in CygWin shell. No luck. >> >> o Try looking in online CygWin UG: Not mentioned >> in the TOC. >> >> o Download PDF of user's guide and search for "rebase" >> and "rebaseall". No hits? >> >> o Can't find a "search this site" button on the CygWin >> web site. Could have sworn there was one. > > The mailing list archives have a search form, but the rest of the site >doesn't. > > By far the best way to search it is to go to google, and add >"site:cygwin.com" to whatever other search terms you want. > >> o "rebase --help" produces a one-liner just describing >> the argument syntax without explanation. >> >> o "rebaseall --help" produces a couple of sentences >> telling me to shut down things before using it, >> but again, not what it's used for. >> >> I'd like to look into this, but how? > > >Heh, excellent work. Can't fault you there.
Well, I can sort of fault that you'd take five steps to come to the conclusion that a program suggested in the Cygwin mailing list was actually a Cygwin program, i.e., http://cygwin.com/packages/ . I'd also fault the notion that every single program mentioned in the context of Cygwin would be mentioned in the Cygwin "UG". However, >It's in the cygwin-specific documentation dir, /usr/share/doc/Cygwin. >It's called "rebase-2.4.2.README" (unless I missed an update recently). >Start at the bit that reads i.e., http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.resources.documentation I am sort of surprised that rebaseall isn't mentioned in the FAQ however. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
