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