Re: git help error

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

"Aneesh Kumar" [off-list ref] writes:

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git help gives me the below error.

[master@git]$ git help add
No manual entry for git-add
See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available.
[master@git]$

I have the git binaries installed via --prefix

./configure --prefix=/home/kvaneesh/bin-local/git/
and to see the man page i have to say

man -M /home/kvaneesh/bin-local/git/share/man/

I guess git-help need to take care of the prefix.

When you run "man" from the command line, can you say

     $ man git-add

and make it work?  If it fails the same way, then what you are missing
is MANPATH environment variable, isn't it?

I think what the OP asked for makes sense. git-help should better find
corresponding version of manual pages automatically. This way, if one
invokes different versions of git-help, he will get corresponding
version of help text.

-- 
Sergei.