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| author | Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> | 2007-12-04 06:44:29 +0100 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-12-03 22:16:54 -0800 |
| commit | 45533d2694d480be86112f2da36d555e7373ba24 (patch) | |
| tree | 1d838477ae8d78c4b1cc0efcd57e56be9b5a1159 /Documentation | |
| parent | df55c9cbc3ea79c51d5f41a628439283e94a87fd (diff) | |
| download | git-45533d2694d480be86112f2da36d555e7373ba24.tar.gz git-45533d2694d480be86112f2da36d555e7373ba24.tar.xz | |
Documentation: describe -i/--info option to "git-help"
Option -i|--info for "git-help" is documented only in the new
"git-help.txt" man page, but this new man page is referenced
from the "--help" option documentation in the "git.txt" man page.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-help.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git.txt | 5 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-help.txt b/Documentation/git-help.txt index a2255bc55..232daae0d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-help.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-help.txt @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-help - display help information about git SYNOPSIS -------- -'git help' [-a|--all] [COMMAND] +'git help' [-a|--all|-i|--info] [COMMAND] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ If the option '--all' or '-a' is given, then all available commands are printed on the standard output. If a git command is named, a manual page for that command is brought -up. The 'man' program is used by default for this purpose. +up. The 'man' program is used by default for this purpose, but this +can be overriden by other options. Note that 'git --help ...' is identical as 'git help ...' because the former is internally converted into the latter. @@ -32,6 +33,10 @@ OPTIONS Prints all the available commands on the standard output. This option superseeds any other option. +-i|--info:: + Use the 'info' program to display the manual page, instead of + the 'man' program that is used by default. + Author ------ Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> and the git-list diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index c4e6fc649..c4e4d24ea 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -104,6 +104,11 @@ OPTIONS commands. If the option '--all' or '-a' is given then all available commands are printed. If a git command is named this option will bring up the manual page for that command. ++ +Other options are available to control how the manual page is +displayed. See gitlink:git-help[1] for more information, +because 'git --help ...' is converted internally into 'git +help ...'. --exec-path:: Path to wherever your core git programs are installed. |