Re: --help for git commands

From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Date: Apr 25, 2022, 13:55 UTC
Message-ID: <f373dfbc-51b6-2985-68aa-412599df2b43@iee.email>
In-Reply-To: <CAJyCBORnAsJjC6+JmDX_nMMnAEZbLbhVNK9QKB7cb88KGUsARQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Dorian On 25/04/2022 07:22, Shaoxuan Yuan wrote:

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> On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 2:26 PM Dorian Marié <dorian@dorianmarie.fr> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think it would be nice to have a simple help like other programs do
>> when doing `git [subcommand] --help` or `git [subcommand] -h`.
>>
>> It would be a short version of the manual.
> I think we do have a "simple help like other programs do".
>
> You will get the git manual page for a command, for example, git-add,
> with one of the followings:
>
> `git add --help`
> `git help add`
> `man git-add`
>
> Or, you can get a "short version of the manual", i.e. usage string, using this:
>
> `git add -h`
>

The `-h` option is listed in the command line interpreter (cli) guide `git help cli` and the help command is listed via the `git help help`, which also notes the `git help git` method for getting git's own help/man page.

All part of the many 'obvious in retrospect' parts of Git ;-)

Philip