SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git help' [-a|--all] [-g|--guide]
+'git help' [-a|--all [--[no-]verbose]] [-g|--guide]
[-i|--info|-m|--man|-w|--web] [COMMAND|GUIDE]
DESCRIPTION
command and a list of the most commonly used Git commands are printed
on the standard output.
-If the option '--all' or `-a` is given, all available commands are
+If the option `--all` or `-a` is given, all available commands are
printed on the standard output.
-If the option '--guide' or `-g` is given, a list of the useful
+If the option `--guide` or `-g` is given, a list of the useful
Git guides is also printed on the standard output.
If a command, or a guide, is given, a manual page for that command or
purpose, but this can be overridden by other options or configuration
variables.
+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
+`git COMMAND --help`.
+
Note that `git --help ...` is identical to `git help ...` because the
former is internally converted into the latter.
Prints all the available commands on the standard output. This
option overrides any given command or guide name.
+--verbose::
+ When used with `--all` print description for all recognized
+ commands. This is the default.
+
+-c::
+--config::
+ List all available configuration variables. This is a short
+ summary of the list in linkgit:git-config[1].
+
-g::
--guides::
Prints a list of useful guides on the standard output. This
* "man": use the 'man' program as usual,
* "woman": use 'emacsclient' to launch the "woman" mode in emacs
-(this only works starting with emacsclient versions 22),
+ (this only works starting with emacsclient versions 22),
* "konqueror": use 'kfmclient' to open the man page in a new konqueror
-tab (see 'Note about konqueror' below).
+ tab (see 'Note about konqueror' below).
Values for other tools can be used if there is a corresponding
`man.<tool>.cmd` configuration entry (see below).
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Note that all these configuration variables should probably be set
-using the '--global' flag, for example like this:
+using the `--global` flag, for example like this:
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$ git config --global help.format web