From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EF12C433DF for ; Wed, 20 May 2020 21:50:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15E1620823 for ; Wed, 20 May 2020 21:50:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728148AbgETVu1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 May 2020 17:50:27 -0400 Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk ([85.233.160.19]:55564 "EHLO smtp.hosts.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726510AbgETVu1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 May 2020 17:50:27 -0400 Received: from [89.243.191.101] (helo=[192.168.1.37]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1jbWbZ-000AE0-G5; Wed, 20 May 2020 22:50:26 +0100 Subject: Re: How do Git on Linux users launch/read the user-manual? To: Junio C Hamano Cc: Git List References: <8142f64b-9b5e-3637-21a2-3671dd65a42e@iee.email> From: Philip Oakley Message-ID: <6dd15666-1e3e-e9b2-d98b-396d58f241cd@iee.email> Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 22:50:24 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-GB Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Hi Junio, On 20/05/2020 22:27, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Philip Oakley writes: > >> I can then browse that directory to find user-manual.html and open it >> from there (because I know it is there!). >> >> How do Git on Linux users launch/read the user-manual? > Start from the same starting point > > $ git help -w git > > and then navigate to the link to "Git User Manual"? > And then what? Is it always some .html viewer, or viewing the raw .txt file, or something else? (it isn't the man view..) -- Philip