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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 20, 2020, 23:56 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqpnaytb31.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <6dd15666-1e3e-e9b2-d98b-396d58f241cd@iee.email>

Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> writes:

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> Hi Junio,
>
> On 20/05/2020 22:27, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> writes:
>>
>>> 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?
>> Start from the same starting point
>>
>> $ git help -w git
>>
>> and then navigate to the link to "Git User Manual"?
>>
> And then what? Is it always some .html viewer, or viewing the raw .txt
> file, or something else? (it isn't the man view..)

"git help -w" is showing stuff in the web browser, and when you open git(1), which is rendered in HTML, and visit "Git User's Manual" link in it, the experience would be no different from those viewing via the browser on Windows---$(htmldir)/user-manual.html is where the rendered HTML version of the user-manual is.

Or are you asking something else?