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| author | Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> | 2008-11-17 16:42:47 +0100 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-11-17 08:21:31 -0800 |
| commit | b3d9888792f220f4c1e72953874484a0cf0575fe (patch) | |
| tree | 377ce1d5d3c7eff4af89a339b7654636f528f300 | |
| parent | 83b767360a183abf29cb0cc0fd647fb683cff616 (diff) | |
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Documentation: user-manual: add information about "git help" at the beginning
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 <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/user-manual.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 645d752c5..c0d8caf46 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. |