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man pages are the first place I'm looking in for flags for commands I know for years, or when I'm using new commands — and it's always a frustrating experience when they don't exist.

Please, always ship man pages with whatever you write. It's /easy/ to do and has a great added value.

PS: doc on the web is so often irrelevant… either too old, or too recent — and in the rare cases where it's properly versioned, the workflow is something like “cmd --version ; google cmd $version” instead of just “man cmd”, which is nowhere as convenient or reliable.



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