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Are the 'How to' documents present as man pages?

From
Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 16, 2017, 05:00 UTC
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I was reading the 'git revert' documentation and found the following line in it,

    -m parent-number
    --mainline parent-number
        ...
        See the revert-a-faulty-merge How-To[1] for more details.

It says that the 'How-To' is present in the first section of the man page. I tried to access it to get this,

    $ man 1 revert-a-faulty-merge How-To
    No manual entry for revert-a-faulty-merge in section 1
    No manual entry for How-To in section 1

That made me wonder whether the 'How-To' documents were present as man pages and were installed when git is installed.

In case they are, how should I be accessing them? In case they aren't doesn't the above seem misleading?

    -- 
    Kaartic
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