From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
To: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: How do Git on Linux users launch/read the user-manual?
Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 21:58:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8142f64b-9b5e-3637-21a2-3671dd65a42e@iee.email> (raw)
As a Windows user, when I want to look at the Git user-manual, I tend to
`git help git`, which on Git for Windows opens the users default
browser. For me, it's at C:/Program
Files/Git/mingw64/share/doc/git-doc/git.html.
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?
Essentially the user manual isn't accessible from Git, and really it
should be.
However it's not a formatted as a man page so some other access
mechanism is needed, compatible with Linux, and Windows users. It would
be nice if it was part of the `git help -g` list.
Excuse my ignorance for not knowing how linux users should access this
usefully curated doc.
Question promoted by Philippe's recent inclusion of the FAQ to the doc
list [1]
Philip
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqimgqwqif.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com/T/#t
next reply other threads:[~2020-05-20 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-20 20:58 Philip Oakley [this message]
2020-05-20 21:27 ` How do Git on Linux users launch/read the user-manual? Junio C Hamano
2020-05-20 21:50 ` Philip Oakley
2020-05-20 23:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-21 21:29 ` Philip Oakley
2020-05-21 22:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-21 22:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-22 9:57 ` Philip Oakley
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