> ... but you sometimes have to search or look at more than one man page to find what you are looking for.

Well, yes, that's one of the problems. I am saying the docs are unintuitive, and now you are confirming that.

For 'git init --bare', I look into 'git-init' and search for '--bare'. That's what I do, that's intuitive to me. And that's not where the info is. Is all I am saying.