From: Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 18:39:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Why are there multiple ways to get the manual in Git?
Message-ID: <20160917183919.GJ20666@paksenarrion.iveqy.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAM_5GX48gDAZSvAWnxO5n8uhYf8vmfAJ88_31_ewsQxyPfF7iA@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 01:47:52PM -0400, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> $ git help <verb>
> $ git <verb> --help
> $ man git-<verb>
> 
> I tested all three to confirm they were equivalent.

While I'm not able to answer your question, I can shred a little light
about them not being equal. For example using a windows machine

$ man git <verb>

does not work and

$ git help <verb>

opens a webbrowser instead of a man page. Using a unix system I would
however assume that

$ man git <verb>

would work since it's the standard way of getting help on those systems.

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