From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:55:23 GMT
Subject: Re: git help error
Message-ID: <7v1wa25oqc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <cc723f590712040826o7ca36bfg35b8cb4d64ee8d2d@mail.gmail.com>

"Aneesh Kumar" <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com> writes:

> git help gives me the below error.
>
> [master@git]$ git help add
> No manual entry for git-add
> See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available.
> [master@git]$
>
> I have the git binaries installed via --prefix
>
> ./configure --prefix=/home/kvaneesh/bin-local/git/
> and to see the man page i have to say
>
> man -M /home/kvaneesh/bin-local/git/share/man/
>
> I guess git-help need to take care of the prefix.

When you run "man" from the command line, can you say

     $ man git-add

and make it work?  If it fails the same way, then what you are missing
is MANPATH environment variable, isn't it?