# [PATCH 1/2 v2] Documentation: user-manual: add information about "git help" at the beginning 1 messages from 2008-11-17 to 2008-11-17. Participants: Christian Couder. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/16367 ## Christian Couder, 2008-11-17 15:42 Subject: [PATCH 1/2 v2] Documentation: user-manual: add information about "git help" at the beginning Message-ID: <20081117164247.52181daf.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20081117164247.52181daf.chriscool%40tuxfamily.org ``` Talking 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 --- 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. 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 ", just use +pages, or linkgit:git-help[1] command. For example, for the command +"git clone ", 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 <> for a brief overview of git commands, without any explanation. -- 1.6.0.4.617.g621cb ```