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diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
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--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git' [--version] [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path]
+'git' [--version] [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path]
[-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects]
[--bare] [--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>]
[-c <name>=<value>]
branch of the `git.git` repository.
Documentation for older releases are available here:
-* link:v1.7.4.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.4.1]
+* link:v1.7.6.6/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.6.6]
* release notes for
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.6.6.txt[1.7.6.6],
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.6.5.txt[1.7.6.5],
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.6.4.txt[1.7.6.4],
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.6.3.txt[1.7.6.3],
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.6.2.txt[1.7.6.2],
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.6.1.txt[1.7.6.1],
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.6.txt[1.7.6].
+
+* link:v1.7.5.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.5.4]
+
+* release notes for
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.5.4.txt[1.7.5.4],
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.5.3.txt[1.7.5.3],
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.5.2.txt[1.7.5.2],
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.5.1.txt[1.7.5.1],
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.5.txt[1.7.5].
+
+* link:v1.7.4.5/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.4.5]
+
+* release notes for
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.4.5.txt[1.7.4.5],
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.4.4.txt[1.7.4.4],
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.4.3.txt[1.7.4.3],
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.4.2.txt[1.7.4.2],
link:RelNotes/1.7.4.1.txt[1.7.4.1],
link:RelNotes/1.7.4.txt[1.7.4].
the current setting and then exit.
--html-path::
- Print the path to wherever your git HTML documentation is installed
- and exit.
+ Print the path, without trailing slash, where git's HTML
+ documentation is installed and exit.
+
+--man-path::
+ Print the manpath (see `man(1)`) for the man pages for
+ this version of git and exit.
+
+--info-path::
+ Print the path where the Info files documenting this
+ version of git are installed and exit.
-p::
--paginate::
symbolic notation:
HEAD::
- indicates the head of the current branch (i.e. the
- contents of `$GIT_DIR/HEAD`).
+ indicates the head of the current branch.
<tag>::
a valid tag 'name'
- (i.e. the contents of `$GIT_DIR/refs/tags/<tag>`).
+ (i.e. a `refs/tags/<tag>` reference).
<head>::
a valid head 'name'
- (i.e. the contents of `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/<head>`).
+ (i.e. a `refs/heads/<head>` reference).
For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
"SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
Authors
-------
-* git's founding father is Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>.
-* The current git nurse is Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>.
-* The git potty was written by Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>.
-* General upbringing is handled by the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
-Documentation
---------------
-The documentation for git suite was started by David Greaves
-<david@dgreaves.com>, and later enhanced greatly by the
-contributors on the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
+Git was started by Linus Torvalds, and is currently maintained by Junio
+C Hamano. Numerous contributions have come from the git mailing list
+<git@vger.kernel.org>. For a more complete list of contributors, see
+http://git-scm.com/about. If you have a clone of git.git itself, the
+output of linkgit:git-shortlog[1] and linkgit:git-blame[1] can show you
+the authors for specific parts of the project.
Reporting Bugs
--------------