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Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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git-help(1)
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NAME
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----
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git-help - Display help information about Git
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SYNOPSIS
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--------
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[verse]
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'git help' [-a|--all] [-g|--guide]
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[-i|--info|-m|--man|-w|--web] [COMMAND|GUIDE]
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DESCRIPTION
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-----------
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With no options and no COMMAND or GUIDE 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, all available commands are
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printed on the standard output.
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If the option '--guide' or '-g' is given, a list of the useful
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Git guides is also printed on the standard output.
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If a command, or a guide, is given, a manual page for that command or
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guide is brought up. The 'man' program is used by default for this
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purpose, but this can be overridden by other options or configuration
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variables.
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Note that `git --help ...` is identical to `git help ...` because the
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former is internally converted into the latter.
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To display the linkgit:git[1] man page, use `git help git`.
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This page can be displayed with 'git help help' or `git help --help`
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OPTIONS
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-------
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-a::
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--all::
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Prints all the available commands on the standard output. This
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option overrides any given command or guide name.
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-g::
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--guides::
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Prints a list of useful guides on the standard output. This
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option overrides any given command or guide name.
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-i::
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--info::
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Display manual page for the command in the 'info' format. The
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'info' program will be used for that purpose.
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-m::
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--man::
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Display manual page for the command in the 'man' format. This
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option may be used to override a value set in the
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'help.format' configuration variable.
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+
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By default the 'man' program will be used to display the manual page,
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but the 'man.viewer' configuration variable may be used to choose
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other display programs (see below).
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-w::
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--web::
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Display manual page for the command in the 'web' (HTML)
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format. A web browser will be used for that purpose.
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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 web{litdd}browse' helper script
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(called by 'git help') will pick a suitable default. See
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linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1] for more information about this.
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CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
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-----------------------
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help.format
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~~~~~~~~~~~
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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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help.browser, web.browser and browser.<tool>.path
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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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 and linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1].
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man.viewer
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~~~~~~~~~~
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The 'man.viewer' configuration variable will be checked if the 'man'
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format is chosen. The following values are currently supported:
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* "man": use the 'man' program as usual,
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* "woman": use 'emacsclient' to launch the "woman" mode in emacs
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(this only works starting with emacsclient versions 22),
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* "konqueror": use 'kfmclient' to open the man page in a new konqueror
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tab (see 'Note about konqueror' below).
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Values for other tools can be used if there is a corresponding
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'man.<tool>.cmd' configuration entry (see below).
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Multiple values may be given to the 'man.viewer' configuration
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variable. Their corresponding programs will be tried in the order
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listed in the configuration file.
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For example, this configuration:
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[man]
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viewer = konqueror
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viewer = woman
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will try to use konqueror first. But this may fail (for example, if
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DISPLAY is not set) and in that case emacs' woman mode will be tried.
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If everything fails, or if no viewer is configured, the viewer specified
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in the GIT_MAN_VIEWER environment variable will be tried. If that
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fails too, the 'man' program will be tried anyway.
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man.<tool>.path
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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You can explicitly provide a full path to your preferred man viewer by
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setting the configuration variable 'man.<tool>.path'. For example, you
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can configure the absolute path to konqueror by setting
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'man.konqueror.path'. Otherwise, 'git help' assumes the tool is
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available in PATH.
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man.<tool>.cmd
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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When the man viewer, specified by the 'man.viewer' configuration
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variables, is not among the supported ones, then the corresponding
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'man.<tool>.cmd' configuration variable will be looked up. If this
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variable exists then the specified tool will be treated as a custom
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command and a shell eval will be used to run the command with the man
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page passed as arguments.
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Note about konqueror
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When 'konqueror' is specified in the 'man.viewer' configuration
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variable, we launch 'kfmclient' to try to open the man page on an
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already opened konqueror in a new tab if possible.
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For consistency, we also try such a trick if 'man.konqueror.path' is
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set to something like 'A_PATH_TO/konqueror'. That means we will try to
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launch 'A_PATH_TO/kfmclient' instead.
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If you really want to use 'konqueror', then you can use something like
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the following:
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[man]
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viewer = konq
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[man "konq"]
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cmd = A_PATH_TO/konqueror
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------------------------------------------------
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Note about git config --global
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Note that all these configuration variables should probably be set
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using 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 linkgit:git-config[1] for more information about this.
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GIT
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---
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
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