From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 11:42:25 GMT Subject: Re: Git for Windows documentation, was Re: [git-for-windows] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.9.3 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Hi Dakota, On Wed, 24 Aug 2016, Dakota Hawkins wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Johannes Schindelin > wrote: > > > > On Tue, 23 Aug 2016, Dakota Hawkins wrote: > > > >> I use GFW almost exclusively, but I pretty much always consult the > >> upstream documentation anyway (because I find it easier). > > > > Oh... I thought that typing "git help git-commit" opening a nice HTML > > page in your favorite browser was good enough. > > > > Do you have any suggestion how to improve the user experience? > > Just a small one, and that's that I'd prefer the option to have help > display in my terminal (that option might exist and I don't know how to > turn it on). That would be very convenient for me. Ah, okay... The reason why this is not that easy is: we ship with HTML documentation (and skip `man` altogether, also to conserve space in the already large installer: it is ~30MB, which might seem acceptable to you until you are stuck in a country where the download is at 30-70 kB/s). So I am afraid that the only solution in that case would be to install the Git for Windows SDK (https://git-for-windows.github.io/#download-sdk, as pointed out by Philip). Ciao, Johannes