update man pages: document stripping of .git suffix

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Hiltjo Posthuma 2016-01-06 20:04:34 +01:00
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will create an index HTML page for the repositories specified and writes
the HTML data to stdout.
.Pp
The basename of the directory is used as the name.
The basename of the directory is used as the name. The suffix ".git" is
removed from the basename, this is commonly used for "bare" repos.
.Pp
The content of the follow files specifies the meta data for each repository:
.Bl -tag -width Ds

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commit. It will write the string "binary files differ" if the data is
considered to be non-textual.
.Pp
The basename of the directory is used as the name.
The basename of the directory is used as the name. The suffix ".git" is
removed from the basename, this is commonly used for "bare" repos.
.Pp
The content of the follow files specifies the meta data for each repository:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It .git/description or description (bare repos).
.It .git/description or description (bare repo).
description
.It .git/owner or owner (bare repo).
owner of repository