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GIT-HELP(1)			  Git Manual			   GIT-HELP(1)

NAME
       git-help - display help information about git

SYNOPSIS
       git help [-a|--all|-i|--info|-m|--man|-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 overridden by other options or configuration variables.

       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 supersedes any other option.

       -i|--info
	      Display manual page for the command in the info format. The info
	      program will be used for that purpose.

       -m|--man
	      Display manual page for the command in the man format. This
	      option may be used to override a value set in the help.format
	      configuration variable.

	      By default the man program will be used to display the manual
	      page, but the man.viewer configuration variable may be used to
	      choose other display programs (see below).

       -w|--web
	      Display manual page for the command in the web (HTML) format. A
	      web browser will be used for that purpose.

	      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-web--browse
	      helper script (called by git-help) will pick a suitable default.
	      See git-web--browse(1) for more information about this.

CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
   help.format
       If no command line option is passed, the help.format configuration
       variable will be checked. The following values are supported for this
       variable; they make git-help behave as their corresponding command line
       option:

       ·  "man" corresponds to -m|--man,

       ·  "info" corresponds to -i|--info,

       ·  "web" or "html" correspond to -w|--web.

   help.browser, web.browser and browser.<tool>.path
       The help.browser, web.browser and browser.<tool>.path will also be
       checked if the web format is chosen (either by command line option or
       configuration variable). See -w|--web in the OPTIONS section above and
       git-web--browse(1).

   man.viewer
       The man.viewer config variable will be checked if the man format is
       chosen. Only the following values are currently supported:

       ·  "man": use the man program as usual,

       ·  "woman": use emacsclient to launch the "woman" mode in emacs (this
	  only works starting with emacsclient versions 22),

       ·  "konqueror": use a man KIO slave in konqueror.

	  Multiple values may be given to this configuration variable. Their
	  corresponding programs will be tried in the order listed in the
	  configuration file.

	  For example, this configuration:

	  [man]
		  viewer = konqueror
		  viewer = woman
	  will try to use konqueror first. But this may fail (for example if
	  DISPLAY is not set) and in that case emacs' woman mode will be
	  tried.

	  If everything fails the man program will be tried anyway.

   Note about git config --global
       Note that all these configuration variables should probably be set
       using the --global flag, for example like this:

       $ git config --global help.format web
       $ git config --global web.browser firefox

       as they are probably more user specific than repository specific. See
       git-config(1) for more information about this.

AUTHOR
       Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> and the git-list
       <git@vger.kernel.org>.

DOCUMENTATION
       Initial documentation was part of the git(7) man page. Christian Couder
       <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> extracted and rewrote it a little.
       Maintenance is done by the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.

GIT
       Part of the git(7) suite

Git 1.5.5.2			  10/21/2008			   GIT-HELP(1)
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