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How do Git on Linux users launch/read the user-manual?

From
Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Date
May 20, 2020, 20:58 UTC
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As a Windows user, when I want to look at the Git user-manual, I tend to `git help git`, which on Git for Windows opens the users  default browser. For me, it's at C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/share/doc/git-doc/git.html.

I can then browse that directory to find user-manual.html and open it from there (because I know it is there!).

How do Git on Linux users launch/read the user-manual?

Essentially the user manual isn't accessible from Git, and really it should be.

However it's not a formatted as a man page so some other access mechanism is needed, compatible with Linux, and Windows users. It would be nice if it was part of the `git help -g` list.

Excuse my ignorance for not knowing how linux users should access this usefully curated doc.

Question promoted by Philippe's recent inclusion of the FAQ to the doc list [1]

Philip
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqimgqwqif.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com/T/#t
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