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<h1>
git-help(1) Manual Page
</h1>
<h2>NAME</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<p>git-help -
Display help information about Git
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="content">
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="verseblock">
<pre class="content"><em>git help</em> [-a|--all] [--[no-]verbose] [--[no-]external-commands] [--[no-]aliases]
<em>git help</em> [[-i|--info] [-m|--man] [-w|--web]] [<command>|<doc>]
<em>git help</em> [-g|--guides]
<em>git help</em> [-c|--config]
<em>git help</em> [--user-interfaces]
<em>git help</em> [--developer-interfaces]</pre>
<div class="attribution">
</div></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>With no options and no <em><command></em> or <em><doc></em> given, the synopsis of the <em>git</em>
command and a list of the most commonly used Git commands are printed
on the standard output.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>If the option <code>--all</code> or <code>-a</code> is given, all available commands are
printed on the standard output.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>If the option <code>--guides</code> or <code>-g</code> is given, a list of the
Git concept guides is also printed on the standard output.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>If a command or other documentation is given, the relevant manual page
will be brought up. The <em>man</em> program is used by default for this
purpose, but this can be overridden by other options or configuration
variables.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>If an alias is given, git shows the definition of the alias on
standard output. To get the manual page for the aliased command, use
<code>git <command> --help</code>.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Note that <code>git --help ...</code> is identical to <code>git help ...</code> because the
former is internally converted into the latter.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>To display the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> man page, use <code>git help git</code>.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>This page can be displayed with <em>git help help</em> or <code>git help --help</code>.</p></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="dlist"><dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">
-a
</dt>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--all
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Print all the available commands on the standard output.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--no-external-commands
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
When used with <code>--all</code>, exclude the listing of external "git-*"
commands found in the <code>$PATH</code>.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--no-aliases
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
When used with <code>--all</code>, exclude the listing of configured
aliases.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--verbose
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
When used with <code>--all</code>, print description for all recognized
commands. This is the default.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
-c
</dt>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--config
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
List all available configuration variables. This is a short
summary of the list in <a href="git-config.html">git-config(1)</a>.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
-g
</dt>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--guides
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Print a list of the Git concept guides on the standard output.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--user-interfaces
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Print a list of the repository, command and file interfaces
documentation on the standard output.
</p>
<div class="paragraph"><p>In-repository file interfaces such as <code>.git/info/exclude</code> are
documented here (see <a href="gitrepository-layout.html">gitrepository-layout(5)</a>), as well as
in-tree configuration such as <code>.mailmap</code> (see <a href="gitmailmap.html">gitmailmap(5)</a>).</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>This section of the documentation also covers general or widespread
user-interface conventions (e.g. <a href="gitcli.html">gitcli(7)</a>), and
pseudo-configuration such as the file-based <code>.git/hooks/*</code> interface
described in <a href="githooks.html">githooks(5)</a>.</p></div>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--developer-interfaces
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Print a list of file formats, protocols and other developer
interfaces documentation on the standard output.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
-i
</dt>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--info
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Display manual page for the command in the <em>info</em> format. The
<em>info</em> program will be used for that purpose.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
-m
</dt>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--man
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Display manual page for the command in the <em>man</em> format. This
option may be used to override a value set in the
<code>help.format</code> configuration variable.
</p>
<div class="paragraph"><p>By default the <em>man</em> program will be used to display the manual page,
but the <code>man.viewer</code> configuration variable may be used to choose
other display programs (see below).</p></div>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
-w
</dt>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--web
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Display manual page for the command in the <em>web</em> (HTML)
format. A web browser will be used for that purpose.
</p>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The web browser can be specified using the configuration variable
<code>help.browser</code>, or <code>web.browser</code> if the former is not set. If neither of
these config variables is set, the <em>git web--browse</em> helper script
(called by <em>git help</em>) will pick a suitable default. See
<a href="git-web--browse.html">git-web--browse(1)</a> for more information about this.</p></div>
</dd>
</dl></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_configuration_variables">CONFIGURATION VARIABLES</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_help_format">help.format</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>If no command-line option is passed, the <code>help.format</code> configuration
variable will be checked. The following values are supported for this
variable; they make <em>git help</em> behave as their corresponding command-
line option:</p></div>
<div class="ulist"><ul>
<li>
<p>
"man" corresponds to <em>-m|--man</em>,
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
"info" corresponds to <em>-i|--info</em>,
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
"web" or "html" correspond to <em>-w|--web</em>.
</p>
</li>
</ul></div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_help_browser_web_browser_and_browser_lt_tool_gt_path">help.browser, web.browser, and browser.<tool>.path</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The <code>help.browser</code>, <code>web.browser</code> and <code>browser.<tool>.path</code> will also
be checked if the <em>web</em> format is chosen (either by command-line
option or configuration variable). See <em>-w|--web</em> in the OPTIONS
section above and <a href="git-web--browse.html">git-web--browse(1)</a>.</p></div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_man_viewer">man.viewer</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The <code>man.viewer</code> configuration variable will be checked if the <em>man</em>
format is chosen. The following values are currently supported:</p></div>
<div class="ulist"><ul>
<li>
<p>
"man": use the <em>man</em> program as usual,
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
"woman": use <em>emacsclient</em> to launch the "woman" mode in emacs
(this only works starting with emacsclient versions 22),
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
"konqueror": use <em>kfmclient</em> to open the man page in a new konqueror
tab (see <em>Note about konqueror</em> below).
</p>
</li>
</ul></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Values for other tools can be used if there is a corresponding
<code>man.<tool>.cmd</code> configuration entry (see below).</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Multiple values may be given to the <code>man.viewer</code> configuration
variable. Their corresponding programs will be tried in the order
listed in the configuration file.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>For example, this configuration:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><code> [man]
viewer = konqueror
viewer = woman</code></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>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.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>If everything fails, or if no viewer is configured, the viewer specified
in the <code>GIT_MAN_VIEWER</code> environment variable will be tried. If that
fails too, the <em>man</em> program will be tried anyway.</p></div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_man_lt_tool_gt_path">man.<tool>.path</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>You can explicitly provide a full path to your preferred man viewer by
setting the configuration variable <code>man.<tool>.path</code>. For example, you
can configure the absolute path to konqueror by setting
<em>man.konqueror.path</em>. Otherwise, <em>git help</em> assumes the tool is
available in PATH.</p></div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_man_lt_tool_gt_cmd">man.<tool>.cmd</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>When the man viewer, specified by the <code>man.viewer</code> configuration
variables, is not among the supported ones, then the corresponding
<code>man.<tool>.cmd</code> configuration variable will be looked up. If this
variable exists then the specified tool will be treated as a custom
command and a shell eval will be used to run the command with the man
page passed as arguments.</p></div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_note_about_konqueror">Note about konqueror</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>When <em>konqueror</em> is specified in the <code>man.viewer</code> configuration
variable, we launch <em>kfmclient</em> to try to open the man page on an
already opened konqueror in a new tab if possible.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>For consistency, we also try such a trick if <em>man.konqueror.path</em> is
set to something like <code>A_PATH_TO/konqueror</code>. That means we will try to
launch <code>A_PATH_TO/kfmclient</code> instead.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>If you really want to use <em>konqueror</em>, then you can use something like
the following:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><code> [man]
viewer = konq
[man "konq"]
cmd = A_PATH_TO/konqueror</code></pre>
</div></div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_note_about_git_config_global">Note about git config --global</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Note that all these configuration variables should probably be set
using the <code>--global</code> flag, for example like this:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><code>$ git config --global help.format web
$ git config --global web.browser firefox</code></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>as they are probably more user specific than repository specific.
See <a href="git-config.html">git-config(1)</a> for more information about this.</p></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div>
</div>
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