{"thread":{"id":"16367","subject":"[PATCH 1/2 v2] Documentation: user-manual: add information about \"git help\" at the beginning","startedAt":"2008-11-17T15:42:47Z","lastAt":"2008-11-17T15:42:47Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Christian Couder"],"isPatch":true,"patchVersion":2,"patchTotal":2},"messages":[{"id":"96041","messageId":"20081117164247.52181daf.chriscool@tuxfamily.org","threadId":"16367","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[PATCH 1/2 v2] Documentation: user-manual: add information about \"git help\" at the beginning","fromName":"Christian Couder","fromEmail":"chriscool@tuxfamily.org","sentAt":"2008-11-17T15:42:47Z","receivedAt":"2008-11-17T15:42:47Z","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 |   12 +++++++++++-\n 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)\n\n\tHere is a new version of this patch series with the changes\n\tfrom Junio.\n\n\tThanks,\n\tChristian.\n\ndiff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt\nindex 645d752..c0d8caf 100644\n--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt\n+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt\n@@ -18,12 +18,22 @@ People needing to do actual development will also want to read\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+pages, or linkgit:git-help[1] command.  For example, for the command\n+\"git clone <repo>\", you can either use:\n \n ------------------------------------------------\n $ man git-clone\n ------------------------------------------------\n \n+or:\n+\n+------------------------------------------------\n+$ git help clone\n+------------------------------------------------\n+\n+With the latter, you can use the manual viewer of your choice; see\n+linkgit:git-help[1] for more information.\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"}]}