From the git man page:
"See gittutorial(7) to get started, then see giteveryday(7) for a useful minimum set of commands. The Git User’s Manual[1] has a more in-depth introduction."
I am however, unable to find a command called gittutorial. How do I access it?
CodePudding user response:
git help tutorial
or man 7 gittutorial
. The (7)
in parentheses is a manpage section, section 7 is for introductory/expository conceptual discussion, man 7 intro
gets you the section 7 intro page. Git help displays the docs in whatever form they're installed, by default that's manpages but you can say e.g. git help --web tutorial
to see whether you've got the html docs installed too.
CodePudding user response:
It refers to https://www.git-scm.com/docs/gittutorial. You could run git help gittutorial
to browse the local manual. On Windows, the local manual pages are in mingw64/share/doc/git-doc/
under Git's installation path, which you could also manually open and read.
For giteveryday
, you could run git help giteveryday
.
But for Git User's Manual
, it's https://www.git-scm.com/docs/user-manual. git help user-manual
raises an error saying the system cannot find the page gituser-manual.html
, which should actually be user-manual.html
. It seems git help
automatically inserts git
at the beginning. So git help everyday
and git help tutorial
also work, but git help user-manual
fails.