SYNOPSIS
--------
+[verse]
'git help' [-a|--all|-i|--info|-m|--man|-w|--web] [COMMAND]
DESCRIPTION
up. The 'man' program is used by default for this purpose, but this
can be overridden by other options or configuration variables.
-Note that 'git --help ...' is identical as 'git help ...' because the
+Note that `git --help ...` is identical to `git help ...` because the
former is internally converted into the latter.
OPTIONS
-------
--a|--all::
+-a::
+--all::
Prints all the available commands on the standard output. This
option supersedes any other option.
--i|--info::
+-i::
+--info::
Display manual page for the command in the 'info' format. The
'info' program will be used for that purpose.
--m|--man::
+-m::
+--man::
Display manual page for the command in the 'man' format. This
option may be used to override a value set in the
'help.format' configuration variable.
but the 'man.viewer' configuration variable may be used to choose
other display programs (see below).
--w|--web::
+-w::
+--web::
Display manual page for the command in the 'web' (HTML)
format. A web browser will be used for that purpose.
+
The web browser can be specified using the configuration variable
'help.browser', or 'web.browser' if the former is not set. If none of
-these config variables is set, the 'git-web--browse' helper script
-(called by 'git-help') will pick a suitable default. See
-linkgit:git-web--browse[1] for more information about this.
+these config variables is set, the 'git web{litdd}browse' helper script
+(called by 'git help') will pick a suitable default. See
+linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1] for more information about this.
CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
-----------------------
If no command line option is passed, the 'help.format' configuration
variable will be checked. The following values are supported for this
-variable; they make 'git-help' behave as their corresponding command
+variable; they make 'git help' behave as their corresponding command
line option:
* "man" corresponds to '-m|--man',
The 'help.browser', 'web.browser' and 'browser.<tool>.path' will also
be checked if the 'web' format is chosen (either by command line
option or configuration variable). See '-w|--web' in the OPTIONS
-section above and linkgit:git-web--browse[1].
+section above and linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1].
man.viewer
~~~~~~~~~~
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.
-If everything fails the 'man' program will be tried anyway.
+If everything fails, or if no viewer is configured, the viewer specified
+in the GIT_MAN_VIEWER environment variable will be tried. If that
+fails too, the 'man' program will be tried anyway.
man.<tool>.path
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
as they are probably more user specific than repository specific.
See linkgit:git-config[1] for more information about this.
-Author
-------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> and the git-list
-<git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
-Documentation
--------------
-Initial documentation was part of the linkgit:git[7] man page.
-Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> extracted and rewrote it a
-little. Maintenance is done by the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
GIT
---
-Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite