Re: [PATCH] [doc] Use `man git` to teach users how to navigate the docs

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 29, 2026, 21:20 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqqzibeouv.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <9a628695-3c82-4cbb-96ba-8bd9c1c7570f@app.fastmail.com>

"Julia Evans" <julia@jvns.ca> writes:

> I tried to read `git help cli`, got extremely confused, and gave up so I'm
> not sure what that style is but I'm always happy to be corrected if there's
> a different preferred style :)

"Options come first and then args." appears very early.

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