[PATCH 1/2 v2] Documentation: user-manual: add information about "git help" at the beginning
From: Christian Couder <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:45:40
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
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 <redacted> --- 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 <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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