update man pages: document stripping of .git suffix

diff --git a/stagit-index.1 b/stagit-index.1
index 39d4049e6adb45e552e9aa9f3d55be4471cb5fe1..cb15c3e1f5ff8d5a9eddba565e6c3e8096c958f3 100644 (file)
--- a/stagit-index.1
+++ b/stagit-index.1
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@
 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

diff --git a/stagit.1 b/stagit.1
index a8c65ebe15562352adbdfeb04e50d2ccc01e1645..7ee1249544cc7a8a4b35f64fb356e581ccda62b4 100644 (file)
--- a/stagit.1
+++ b/stagit.1
@@ -34,11 +34,12 @@ commit/commitid.html . This file will contain the diff and diffstat of the
 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