Christian CouderTalking about "git help" is useful because it has a few more features (like when using it without arguments or with "-a") and it may work on non unix like platforms.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> --- Documentation/user-manual.txt | 12 +++++++++++- 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
Here is a new version of this patch series with the changes from Junio.
Thanks, Christian.
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diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 645d752..c0d8caf 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -18,12 +18,22 @@ People needing to do actual development will also want to read Further chapters cover more specialized topics. Comprehensive reference documentation is available through the man -pages. For a command such as "git clone <repo>", just use +pages, or linkgit:git-help[1] command. For example, for the command +"git clone <repo>", you can either use: ------------------------------------------------ $ man git-clone ------------------------------------------------ +or: + +------------------------------------------------ +$ git help clone +------------------------------------------------ + +With the latter, you can use the manual viewer of your choice; see +linkgit:git-help[1] for more information. + See also <<git-quick-start>> for a brief overview of git commands, without any explanation.
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