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>

diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 645d752c5c26d8724e8ded0abe1f207bf3ff6854..c0d8caf46dd4feb53f71f11592a68c3febfc02fa 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -18,12 +18,22 @@ People needing to do actual development will also want to read
 Further chapters cover more specialized topics.
 
 Comprehensive reference documentation is available through the man
 Further chapters cover more specialized topics.
 
 Comprehensive reference documentation is available through the man

-pages.  For a command such as "git clone <repo>", just use
+pages, or linkgit:git-help[1] command.  For example, for the command
+"git clone <repo>", you can either use:

 
 ------------------------------------------------
 $ man git-clone
 ------------------------------------------------
 
 
 ------------------------------------------------
 $ man git-clone
 ------------------------------------------------
 

+or:
+
+------------------------------------------------
+$ git help clone
+------------------------------------------------
+
+With the latter, you can use the manual viewer of your choice; see
+linkgit:git-help[1] for more information.
+

 See also <<git-quick-start>> for a brief overview of git commands,
 without any explanation.
 
 See also <<git-quick-start>> for a brief overview of git commands,
 without any explanation.