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diff --git a/Documentation/git-help.txt b/Documentation/git-help.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a8ffcbe78b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/git-help.txt @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +git-help(1) +=========== + +NAME +---- +git-help - display help information about git + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +'git help' [-a|--all|-i|--info|-m|--man|-w|--web] [COMMAND] + +DESCRIPTION +----------- + +With no options and no COMMAND given, the synopsis of the 'git' +command and a list of the most commonly used git commands are printed +on the standard output. + +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, but this +can be overridden by other options or configuration variables. + +Note that 'git --help ...' is identical as 'git help ...' because the +former is internally converted into the latter. + +OPTIONS +------- +-a|--all:: + Prints all the available commands on the standard output. This + option supersedes any other option. + +-i|--info:: + Use the 'info' program to display the manual page, instead of + the 'man' program that is used by default. + +-m|--man:: + Use the 'man' program to display the manual page. This may be + used to override a value set in the 'help.format' + configuration variable. + +-w|--web:: + Use a web browser to display the HTML manual page, instead of + the 'man' program that is used by default. ++ +The web browser can be specified using the configuration variable +'help.browser', or 'web.browser' if the former is not set. If none of +these config variables is set, the 'git-help--browse' helper script +(called by 'git-help') will pick a suitable default. ++ +You can explicitly provide a full path to your preferred browser by +setting the configuration variable 'browser.<tool>.path'. For example, +you can configure the absolute path to firefox by setting +'browser.firefox.path'. Otherwise, 'git-help--browse' assumes the tool +is available in PATH. ++ +Note that the script tries, as much as possible, to display the HTML +page in a new tab on an already opened browser. + +CONFIGURATION VARIABLES +----------------------- + +If no command line option is passed, the 'help.format' configuration +variable will be checked. The following values are supported for this +variable; they make 'git-help' behave as their corresponding command +line option: + +* "man" corresponds to '-m|--man', +* "info" corresponds to '-i|--info', +* "web" or "html" correspond to '-w|--web', + +The 'help.browser', 'web.browser' and 'browser.<tool>.path' will also +be checked if the 'web' format is chosen (either by command line +option or configuration variable). See '-w|--web' in the OPTIONS +section above. + +Note that these configuration variables should probably be set using +the '--global' flag, for example like this: + +------------------------------------------------ +$ git config --global help.format web +$ git config --global web.browser firefox +------------------------------------------------ + +as they are probably more user specific than repository specific. +See gitlink:git-config[1] for more information about this. + +Author +------ +Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> and the git-list +<git@vger.kernel.org>. + +Documentation +------------- +Initial documentation was part of the gitlink:git[7] man page. +Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> extracted and rewrote it a +little. Maintenance is done by the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. + +GIT +--- +Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite |