From: Carl Worth Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:24:50 +0000 (-0800) Subject: hgbook-git: Clarify a point about "git help" that I didn't know. X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?p=cworth.org;a=commitdiff_plain;h=caa20a8492544c9ee3f44ab071c851352536f065 hgbook-git: Clarify a point about "git help" that I didn't know. Robert Donnelly was kind enough to email me this missing information. --- diff --git a/src/hgbook-git/tour.mdwn b/src/hgbook-git/tour.mdwn index ab74730..a8a891a 100644 --- a/src/hgbook-git/tour.mdwn +++ b/src/hgbook-git/tour.mdwn @@ -120,9 +120,9 @@ times when you find yourself stuck trying to remember how to run a command. If you are completely stuck, simply run “git help”; it will print a brief list of commonly-used commands, along with a description of what each does. If you ask for help on a specific command (such as -"git help init"), it prints more detailed information. [XXX: Does `git -help ` work universally as a built-in or does it expect man to be -present and just call out to `man git-`?] +"git help init"), it prints more detailed information. This command +expects the "man" program to be available and for the git man pages to +be installed. [XXX: The original hgbook includes the complete output of "hg help init" at this point. I'm not including the corresponding @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ present and just call out to `man git-`?] but it only comes after a full screen's worth of options details. Might it make sense to have a more summarized help output for "git help " than all of the documentation - available for git-? And perhaps alos provide a "git -v + available for git-? And perhaps also provide a "git -v help" similar to "hg -v help" for more?] ### 2.3 Working with a repository