{"thread":{"id":"16327","subject":"[PATCH 2/3] Documentation: user-manual: add information about \"git help\" at the beginning","startedAt":"2008-11-14T12:27:05Z","lastAt":"2008-11-14T12:27:05Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Christian Couder"],"isPatch":true,"patchVersion":1,"patchTotal":3},"messages":[{"id":"95778","messageId":"20081114132705.5bb9be21.chriscool@tuxfamily.org","threadId":"16327","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[PATCH 2/3] Documentation: user-manual: add information about \"git help\" at the beginning","fromName":"Christian Couder","fromEmail":"chriscool@tuxfamily.org","sentAt":"2008-11-14T12:27:05Z","receivedAt":"2008-11-14T12:27:05Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"christian.couder@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/208954?v=4"},"body":"Talking about \"git help\" is useful because it has a few more\nfeatures (like when using it without arguments or with \"-a\") and\nit may work on non unix like platforms.\n\nSigned-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>\n---\n Documentation/user-manual.txt |   18 ++++++++++++++++--\n 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)\n\ndiff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt\nindex 645d752..48f7189 100644\n--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt\n+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt\n@@ -17,13 +17,27 @@ People needing to do actual development will also want to read\n \n Further chapters cover more specialized topics.\n \n-Comprehensive reference documentation is available through the man\n-pages.  For a command such as \"git clone <repo>\", just use\n+Comprehensive reference documentation is available through either the\n+linkgit:git-help[1] command or the man pages.  For a command such as\n+\"git clone <repo>\", you can use:\n+\n+------------------------------------------------\n+$ git help clone\n+------------------------------------------------\n+\n+or:\n \n ------------------------------------------------\n $ man git-clone\n ------------------------------------------------\n \n+linkgit:git-help[1] has a few more features and is self-documenting\n+using:\n+\n+------------------------------------------------\n+$ git help help\n+------------------------------------------------\n+\n See also <<git-quick-start>> for a brief overview of git commands,\n without any explanation.\n \n-- \n1.6.0.4.617.g621cb\n"}]}