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Create man pages for tar-diff and tar-patch

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
58/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go

Research direction

Create docs/man/tar-diff.1 and docs/man/tar-patch.1 after reviewing the tar-diff and tar-patch CLI options and usage examples. Add the make man target and connect the pages to make install; verify both pages render with man tar-diff and man tar-patch and are included in the RPM installation.

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Description

Create manual pages for the CLI tools to be included in the RPM package.

Tasks

  • Create docs/man/tar-diff.1 man page
  • Create docs/man/tar-patch.1 man page
  • Add make man target to generate/install man pages
  • Document all CLI options and usage examples

Acceptance Criteria

  • Man pages render correctly with man tar-diff and man tar-patch
  • Man pages included in make install
Dominant language
Go
Stars
66
Forks
27
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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