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Documentation: user-manual: add information about "git help" at the beginning

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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>
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Christian Couder
2008-11-17 16:42:47 +01:00
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@ -18,12 +18,22 @@ People needing to do actual development will also want to read
Further chapters cover more specialized topics. Further chapters cover more specialized topics.
Comprehensive reference documentation is available through the man 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 $ man git-clone
------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------
or:
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$ git help clone
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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, See also <<git-quick-start>> for a brief overview of git commands,
without any explanation. without any explanation.