1git-help(1) 2=========== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-help - display help information about git 7 8SYNOPSIS 9-------- 10'git help' [-a|--all] [COMMAND] 11 12DESCRIPTION 13----------- 14 15With no options and no COMMAND given, the synopsis of the 'git' 16command and a list of the most commonly used git commands are printed 17on the standard output. 18 19If the option '--all' or '-a' is given, then all available commands are 20printed on the standard output. 21 22If a git command is named, a manual page for that command is brought 23up. The 'man' program is used by default for this purpose. 24 25Note that 'git --help ...' is identical as 'git help ...' because the 26former is internally converted into the latter. 27 28OPTIONS 29------- 30-a|--all:: 31 32 Prints all the available commands on the standard output. This 33 option superseeds any other option. 34 35Author 36------ 37Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> and the git-list 38<git@vger.kernel.org>. 39 40Documentation 41------------- 42Initial documentation was part of the gitlink:git[7] man page. 43Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> extracted and rewrote it a 44little. Maintenance is done by the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 45 46GIT 47--- 48Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite