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[PATCH] provide a Git user-manual man page

From
Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date
Feb 15, 2014, 13:51 UTC
Message-ID
<1392472299-3780-1-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org>

This is a resend of my original patch ($gman/240486), which disappeared without comment. I've cc'd those who have touched the User-Manual in the last year for comment on the provision of this access mechanism.

The Git User Manual is formatted as a doc book, rather than as a man page so isn't directly accessible via the usual 'git help <guide>' command.

This patch provides a simple man page with onward links to the true User-Manual.

The man page is based directly on a very cut down version of the git(1) page.

This patch is based on 1.9.0 master.
Philip Oakley (1):
  Provide a 'git help user-manual' route to the docbook
 Documentation/Makefile           |  1 +
 Documentation/gituser-manual.txt | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 builtin/help.c                   |  1 +
 3 files changed, 36 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/gituser-manual.txt
-- 
1.8.3.msysgit.0
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