Documentation: user-manual: add information about "git help" at the beginning
Talking about "git help" is useful because it has a few more features (like when using it without arguments or with "-a") and it may work on non unix like platforms. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -18,12 +18,22 @@ People needing to do actual development will also want to read
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Further chapters cover more specialized topics.
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Comprehensive reference documentation is available through the man
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-pages. For a command such as "git clone <repo>", just use
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+pages, or linkgit:git-help[1] command. For example, for the command
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+"git clone <repo>", you can either use:
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$ man git-clone
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+or:
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+$ git help clone
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+With the latter, you can use the manual viewer of your choice; see
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+linkgit:git-help[1] for more information.
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See also <<git-quick-start>> for a brief overview of git commands,
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without any explanation.
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