git-help(1) =========== NAME ---- git-help - display help information about git SYNOPSIS -------- 'git help' [-a|--all|-i|--info|-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 overriden by other options. 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 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. -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-browse-help' script (called by 'git-help') will pick a suitable default. + You can explicitly provide a full path to your prefered browser by setting the configuration variable 'browser..path'. For example, you can configure the absolute path to firefox by setting 'browser.firefox.path'. Otherwise, 'git-browse-help' 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. Author ------ Written by Junio C Hamano and the git-list . Documentation ------------- Initial documentation was part of the gitlink:git[7] man page. Christian Couder extracted and rewrote it a little. Maintenance is done by the git-list . GIT --- Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite