Merge branch 'mm/sort-config-doc'

[git.git] / Documentation / user-manual.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index f4216899427ab2a24f92dd20da9b43c01c9ef11b..c0d8caf46dd4feb53f71f11592a68c3febfc02fa 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -18,12 +18,22 @@ People needing to do actual development will also want to read
 Further chapters cover more specialized topics.
 
 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
 ------------------------------------------------
 
+or:
+
+------------------------------------------------
+$ git help clone
+------------------------------------------------
+
+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,
 without any explanation.
 
@@ -1890,7 +1900,7 @@ adjustments to give web clients some extra information they need:
 $ mv proj.git /home/you/public_html/proj.git
 $ cd proj.git
 $ git --bare update-server-info
-$ chmod a+x hooks/post-update
+$ mv hooks/post-update.sample hooks/post-update
 -------------------------------------------------
 
 (For an explanation of the last two lines, see
@@ -2825,8 +2835,8 @@ You can also add a "+" to force the update each time:
 $ git config remote.example.fetch +master:ref/remotes/example/master
 -------------------------------------------------
 
-Don't do this unless you're sure you won't mind "git-fetch" possibly
-throwing away commits on mybranch.
+Don't do this unless you're sure you won't mind "git fetch" possibly
+throwing away commits on 'example/master'.
 
 Also note that all of the above configuration can be performed by
 directly editing the file .git/config instead of using
@@ -4356,7 +4366,9 @@ $ git remote show example # get details
 * remote example
   URL: git://example.com/project.git
   Tracked remote branches
-    master next ...
+    master
+    next
+    ...
 $ git fetch example            # update branches from example
 $ git branch -r                        # list all remote branches
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